Houston Chronicle · Houston, Texas · 18 May 1998

CP-1998-007

Israelis, Palestinians clash on the 4th day of unrest over ‘al nakba’

Associated Press, Hebron, West Bank

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“HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian youths threw stones and bottles Sunday at Israeli troops who responded with rubber bullets, wounding six Palestinians in a fourth day of West Bank clashes.

The latest round of violence began Thursday with mass Palestinian demonstrations to mark al nakba, or the catastrophe — which is what Palestinians consider Israel’s founding 50 years ago. Five Palestinians were killed in the clashes, the worst in nearly two years.

On Sunday, six Palestinians received medical treatment for injuries from rubber-coated metal bullets, Hebron hospital officials said. No Israeli soldiers were hurt, according to an Israeli army statement.

The violence continued as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to meet in Washington on Sunday with U.S. officials for talks on a delayed Israeli troop withdrawal from the West Bank.

The Clinton administration backed away from a threat to suspend its mediation of peace talks, even though Netanyahu did not accept a U.S. proposal for territorial compromise… ‘If you ask me, as the prime minister of Israel, to sign a peace treaty in which we somehow erode Israel’s defenses, that won’t hold,’ Netanyahu said on ABC-TV’s This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts.

Israel has signaled it could give up 11 percent of the West Bank in addition to the 27 percent it agreed previously to relinquish, but only 3 percent of which is fully under Palestinian control… Among his themes were allegations that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is violating his agreements with Israel by vowing to establish a Palestinian state if he could not attain one through negotiations, and that the Palestinian police force far exceeds agreed limits… In Jericho on Sunday, about 150 new Palestinian police cadets were graduated, increasing the force to more than 30,000 — far beyond its authorized strength of 24,000.”

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The fiftieth anniversary, and the paper prints the Arabic word in italics with a translation. Five Palestinians killed; no Israeli soldiers hurt.

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