The Daily Press · 3 September 1997
CP-1997-030
Settlers, road crew clash at site in Hebron
The Associated Press
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HEBRON, West Bank — A U.S.-funded project to renovate a street for Palestinian traffic in Hebron became the focus of violent confrontation Tuesday, a week before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in the region.
Jewish settlers threw stones at Palestinian workers renovating Shuhada Street, a main downtown thoroughfare that passes by two settler enclaves in this West Bank town. They fired pellet guns, smashing the window of a bulldozer.
Renovating the road, which had been demanded by Palestinians, would “endanger our lives and allow for masses of troublemakers to come,” settler leader Noam Arnon said. Israeli police arrested the project manager, David Muirhead of Sherman, Conn., and two Palestinian employees for refusing to cooperate with them.
Muirhead accused police of failing to stop the attack. “I was arrested for holding up the police in arresting the driver,” said Muirhead, who was released on bond with the other two and ordered to appear in court today. The Israeli army closed Shuhada Street to Arab traffic after a Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshipers in a Hebron mosque in February 1994.
The street was partially reopened after Israel withdrew troops from most of Hebron last January. The Palestinians demanded the street be fully opened, and as part of the withdrawal agreement, the United States pledged $1 million to fix up the street, which is in the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron.
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"Settlers, road crew clash at site in Hebron," The Daily Press, 3 September 1997. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1997-030. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1997-030
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