The New York Times · 9 December 2000

CP-2000-064

10 Die as Violence Surges on Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’

By JOEL GREENBERG

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JERUSALEM, Dec. 8 — Ten people were killed today in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in one of the deadliest days of violence since the outbreak of the current Palestinian uprising more than two months ago. The violence surged as Palestinians marked the 13th anniversary of the first uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israeli security forces killed seven Palestinians, and Palestinian gunmen shot dead three Israelis, casting a pall over diplomatic efforts to stop the bloodshed and renew peace negotiations between the two sides. An international panel headed by former Senator George J. Mitchell was expected to arrive here within days to investigate the unrest.

More than 300 people, most of them Palestinians, have died in 10 weeks of street clashes, gunbattles, shootings and bombings that have punctuated a Palestinian uprising for independence that has aimed mostly at Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah and Islamic groups had called for a “day of rage” today to mark the start of the first Palestinian uprising, which began in 1987 and ended after the 1993 Oslo peace accord.

The flare-up today also coincided with the second Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, when Palestinians gathered for mosque prayers and many were turned away as they tried to reach Jerusalem for services at Al Aksa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest shrines. The day began with a drive-by shooting at Jewish settlers south of Hebron.

Palestinian gunmen in a passing car sprayed gunfire at a van carrying teachers to the settlement of Qiryat Arba, killing one of them and the driver.

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