HEBRON VIOLENCE CONTINUES : ISRAELI TROOPS DODGE ROCKS, SET UP CURFEW.Byline: Dianna Cahn Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Palestinians threw stones and bottles at Israeli soldiers Sunday as a U.S. mediator tried to revive negotiations on Israel's withdrawal from this West Bank city. With tensions high in the city of 500 Jews and 130,000 Palestinians, envoy Dennis Ross Dennis B. Ross is an American author and political figure who served as the director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H.W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton. said he hoped to ``energize'' the talks on the long-delayed pullout pull·out n. 1. A withdrawal, especially of troops. 2. Change from a dive to level flight. Used of an aircraft. 3. An object designed to be pulled out. Noun 1. . The army rounded up about 100 Palestinians after two firebombs were thrown at a Jewish enclave without causing injuries. They were questioned and held at gunpoint for about an hour, but most were released, an army spokesman said on condition of anonymity. Soldiers in riot gear riot gear n → uniforme m antidisturbios inv riot gear n in riot gear → casqué et portant un bouclier riot gear n then closed Palestinian stores in the city's commercial center and announced a curfew on the area. Palestinians responded with a hail of stones and empty bottles. Soldiers stopped Palestinians in the streets and sniffed their hands for the smell of gasoline used in the homemade explosives. A third firebomb landed near settler homes in the afternoon. Soldiers blocked the road with the tables of Palestinian street merchants and fired warning shots into the air, according to witnesses and radio reports. Jewish settlers in Hebron issued a statement calling on the government to suspend talks with the Palestinians in response to the latest incidents. On Saturday, Israeli soldiers kicked and punched Palestinians when a fight between settlers and schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school escalated into a melee between hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians near Jewish settlements in the Old City. Girls from the Palestinian school Cordoba cor·do·ba n. See Table at currency. [American Spanish córdoba, after Francisco Fernández de Córdoba (1475?-1526?), Spanish explorer.] Noun 1. protested inside their schoolyard Sunday, holding up signs that read ``Save us,'' and ``Ross, come to see how the students of Cordoba are in prison.'' Ross met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday and early Sunday. He was expected to meet with both again before returning home Monday. ``My purpose right now is to have a chance to talk to the leaders to see what can be done to energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood the process,'' Ross said. Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians over Hebron are deadlocked over Israel's demands to tighten security for the settlers. The Palestinians want to link the Israeli redeployment re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. to a pullout from other parts of the West Bank, which also is promised in existing autonomy accords. Israel was to have withdrawn its troops from Hebron in March. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli soldier during clashes in Hebron over Jewish settlements and military activity in the West Bank. Associated Press |
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