Word: palestinian
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...crowd of 2,000 leaving the mosque. Scores of men and boys began to pelt the security forces with stones and concrete chunks, hitting a soldier in the head. Says a policeman who was there: "When we saw the officer bleeding, we lost our minds and started shooting." The Palestinian Authority said that militants inside the mosque opened fire first, but eyewitnesses contradicted this claim. By all accounts, the crowd did torch two police vehicles, which according to officials resulted in the death of a police officer...
...fact, Arafat's security men were primed for a battle. Before being dispatched to the mosque, they had been briefed by senior officers. Says a policeman: "We were told that Hamas people are provocateurs, and that they are big haters of the Palestinian Authority and want to destroy the autonomy." He adds, "We were not nice today because we arrived at the mosque with our faces already red with anger...
...Arafat's Palestinian Authority has made a poor impression on Gazans. They complain of a disorganized and slow-moving bureaucracy rife with corruption. The glacial pace of negotiations on further autonomy has held up plans for withdrawal of Israeli troops from more Arab cities on the West Bank and for Palestinian general elections...
...Palestinian security forces opened fire on Islamic militants at a Gaza City mosque, setting off violent street fighting that shook Yasser Arafat's fragile government. The clashes, in which 15 people were killed and some 200 were wounded, broke out after police and soldiers turned up in force at the mosque in an attempt to prevent members of the fundamentalist group Hamas and Islamic Jihad from marching to protest the arrest of some 200 fellow activists detained after a suicide bomber had killed three Israeli soldiers earlier this month...
Pushing ahead with peace talks that some in their respective constituencies oppose -- often violently -- PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign minister Shimon Peres met in Brussels to hammer out an agreement on elections in Palestinian-ruled territories. The two sides didn't give details, but hinted that the talks were positive. "The Israelis understand our need for quick elections," Arafat said. "At the same time, we have to understand their need for security." The leaders met in the aftermath ofincreasing bloodshed in Gazaand the West Bank. The most recent victim of the violence was buried today, a West Bank...