WEST BANK/ GAZA: ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE TEAR GAS TO BREAK UP PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATION/ ISRAELI TROOPS BLOW UP CAR BOMB IN GAZA STRIP
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640678
WEST BANK/ GAZA: ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE TEAR GAS TO BREAK UP PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATION/ ISRAELI TROOPS BLOW UP CAR BOMB IN GAZA STRIP
- Title: WEST BANK/ GAZA: ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE TEAR GAS TO BREAK UP PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATION/ ISRAELI TROOPS BLOW UP CAR BOMB IN GAZA STRIP
- Date: 15th June 2002
- Summary: (U3) JENIN, WEST BANK (JUNE 15, 2002) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ISRAELI ARMY APCS DRIVING NEAR JENIN (4 SHOTS) GV ISRAELI ARMY HELICOPTER IN SKY ABOVE JENIN 41 (U4) HEBRON, WEST BANK (JUNE 15, 2002) (REUTERS) VARIOUS, ISRAELI SOLDIERS RELEASES TEARGAS GRENADE/KICKING ALONG ROAD TO DISPERSE DEMONSTRATORS WIDE OF CLOUDS OF TEARGAS AS GRENADE GOES OFF VARIOUS, SRAELI SOLDIER HOLDING CROWD BACK (2 SHOTS) SMV PALESTINIAN GIRL CRYING VARIOUS, CROWD RUSHING TO LEAVE THE AREA WIDE OF ISRAELI ARMY VEHICLE ARRIVING WIDE OF CROWD LEAVING SMV PALESTINIAN WOMAN HOLDING CLOTH TO HER FACE/ ALESTINIANS WALKING PAST ISRAELI SOLDIER HOLDING RIFLE IN THE AIR WIDE OF PALESTINIANS RUNNING FROM TEAR GAS VARIOUS OF TEAR GASSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN WIDE OF TEAR GAS BILLOWING BEHIND WALL SMV , OLD MAN SITTING ON GROUND OVERCOME BY TEAR GAS WIDE PF WOMAN CARRIED AWAY BY PALESTINIAN MEN
- Embargoed: 30th June 2002 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: HEBRON / JENIN, WEST BANK / GAZA
- City:
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVA3GH1RAN7YHGI0UJ8CT3BQLI0L
- Story Text: A small contingent of Israeli troops entered the West Bank city of Jenin briefly, declaring a curfew and searching for suspected Palestinian militants after the army said it received intelligence warnings that a terrorist attack was about to be launched from the city.
Later Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters to control a crowd of mostly Palestinian women and children at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip found a car containing more than 150 kilograms of explosives intended to ambush Israeli soldiers, according to Israeli military sources.
Armoured vehicles and jeeps entered Jenin in the northern West Bank before dawn on Saturday (June 15), under cover of heavy machinegun fire.
No one was arrested or injured in the raid that lasted five hours.
The Israeli army said a patrol was sent into Jenin following intelligence warnings that militants were about to launch an attack against Israel from the city.
The army has regularly raided Palestinian-ruled towns, cities, villages and refugee camps in operations which it says are intended to seek-out militants and halt the suicide attacks.
Israeli forces have entered Jenin several times since heavy fighting broke out in the city and its adjacent refugee camp in April during a major Israeli military offensive across the West Bank that failed to halt the suicide bombings.
The pre-dawn raid was the latest in a series of almost-daily incursions into Palestinian-ruled territory that have maintained pressure on Palestinian militant groups as U.S. President George W. Bush works on a peace initiative after 20 months of conflict.
Later, Israeli soldiers fired several shots into the air and threw three tear gas canisters near about 200 Palestinians, many of them women and children, trying to cross at a checkpoint near Hebron on Saturday (June 15).
The people crossing included families trying to return to their village and labourers returning from work.
A man and several women fainted during the the incident.
Israeli troops shelled a car which contained more than 150 kilograms of explosives in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday (June 15).
An army commander at the scene said Palestinian militants had planned to lure soldiers into an ambush by firing mortar bombs off launchers from the car and then detonating the bombs inside the vehicle when soldiers arrived to search the area.
It was the third attempted large-scale car bomb attack in northern Gaza in less than a week, he said.
Military sappers said the car, which was destroyed by an Israeli tank shell, contained two large bombs, one of them weighing around 150 kilograms, as well as mortar grenades and launchers.
Palestinian militants have blown up tanks and killed dozens of soldiers in sophisticated ambushes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in September 2000 after peace negotiations deadlocked.
The U.S. administration held more consultations with Middle East leaders on Friday (June 14) as Bush prepares to unveil his vision, based on a two-state solution, probably next week.
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