Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · 20 March 2023
CP-2023-021
Israel, Palestinians aim to curb violence as holiday nears
By Samy Magdy and Josef Federman, Associated Press, Cairo
Transcribed from the clipping
“CAIRO — Israel and the Palestinians pledged Sunday at a meeting in Egypt to take steps to lower tensions ahead of a sensitive holiday season — including a partial freeze on Israeli settlement activity and an agreement to work together to ‘curb and counter violence.’… The Israeli pledges were largely symbolic. Israel recently approved the construction of thousands of new settlement homes, and there were no immediate plans to approve additional construction… Netanyahu made no mention of Sunday’s summit in his weekly Cabinet meeting. Later, he called the Israeli man who was shot a ‘wounded hero.’”
Photograph caption
“A Palestinian boy watches Israeli soldiers Sunday as they patrol the town of Huwara, in the occupied West Bank, following a shooting attack on an Israeli vehicle in the area.”
Context added by this archive
Two bylines, two headlines, one communiqué. Only this version tells the reader, flatly, that the pledges were largely symbolic.
Cite this item
"Israel, Palestinians aim to curb violence as holiday nears," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20 March 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-021. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-021
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