THE STORY WAS CULLED FROM TH BBC.I FORGOT TO GIVE THEM CREDIT.


>From: Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: PRESSURE GROWS ON ISRAEL
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:09:20 GMT
>
>Pressure grows on Israel
>
>
>              Israel is coming under pressure from the West
>              and the Arab world to end the violence in the
>              West Bank and Gaza Strip, in which at least 33
>              people have died, the vast majority of them
>              Palestinians.
>
>              French President Jacques Chirac condemned
>              Israeli tactics as disproportionate, and
>              denounced the "irresponsible provocation" of a
>              visit last week by Israeli right-winger Ariel
>              Sharon to a site in Jerusalem sacred to both
>              Jews and Muslims.
>
>              US Secretary of State
>              Madeleine Albright,
>              following talks with Mr
>              Chirac, described Mr
>              Sharon's visit as
>              "counter-productive".
>
>              The violence, now in its fifth day, flared after
>              Mr Sharon's visit to the al-Aqsa mosque
>              compound. There have been at least three
>              further deaths on Monday.
>
>              Fresh clashes
>
>              Mrs Albright's
>              statement follows an
>              appeal by US President
>              Clinton to both the
>              Israeli and Palestinian
>              leaders to bring an end
>              to the violence. The
>              White House says Mr
>              Barak and Mr Arafat
>              have agreed to support
>              a US-led inquiry into
>              the violence once calm
>              had been restored.
>
>              But on Monday
>              violence was
>              continuing.
>
>              An Israeli was shot dead in his car near the
>              West Bank town of Bidiya - the first civilian
>              Israeli Jew to have been killed in the unrest.
>
>              Two Arab Israelis who were shot by police
>              during violent demonstrations inside Israel on
>              Sunday have died.
>
>              In Gaza City eight
>              people have been
>              wounded in an explosion
>              at a Palestinian
>              government compound
>              housing the national
>              security headquarters,
>              security sources said.
>
>              Palestinian security sources said the blast was
>              believed to have been caused by a rocket
>              which had been fired on the building by Israeli
>              forces the day before. They said several
>              people were examining the Lau missile when it
>              exploded.
>
>              And in the latest clashes between Palestinians
>              and Israeli troops, six people were injured in
>              the city of Hebron, witnesses said.
>
>              Two people were injured near the line between
>              the Palestinian and Israeli controlled sectors of
>              the city, where Israeli soldiers were firing
>              rubber bullets at stone-throwing
>              demonstrators.
>
>              Another four were wounded in clashes in
>              Bani-Naim to the south-east.
>
>              Blame and counter-blame
>
>              The Israeli Prime
>              Minister Ehud Barak,
>              who met senior
>              security officials late
>              on Sunday, has blamed
>              the Palestinian
>              Authority for the
>              ongoing violence. He
>              called on them to take
>              responsibility for
>              stopping the fighting
>              immediately.
>
>              But the Palestinians
>              say the Israelis are responsible for the
>              continuing clashes.
>
>              Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has urged the
>              Israelis to "stop shooting our soldiers, our old
>              people, our youths, our women".
>
>              Mr Arafat has flown to Jordan for talks with
>              King Abdullah II.
>
>              Presidents Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Bashar
>              al-Assad of Syria, meeting in Cairo, have called
>              for an urgent Arab summit to deal with the
>              violence, but no date was suggested.
>
>
>
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