THE STORY WAS CULLED FROM TH BBC.I FORGOT TO GIVE THEM CREDIT.
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>Subject: PRESSURE GROWS ON ISRAEL
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:09:20 GMT
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>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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