Saturday, April 06, 2002

Israeli Soldiers Force Reporters Out of Ramallah
Israeli soldiers fired warning shots and threw stun grenades this morning at a group of reporters, who have become the Israeli Army's bugbears in recent weeks. The incident occurred here in front of Yasir Arafat's besieged headquarters.

Foreign journalists, including representatives of CNN and ABC, The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse, and the Gamma photo agency, had just arrived outside Mr. Arafat's offices, hoping to see the arrival of the American envoy, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni.

The reporters had barely got out of their armored cars when the two jeeps burst onto the scene. A Merkava tank also rumbled in, blocking access to the heavily damaged compound where Mr. Arafat, who has been confined to a single building since March 29, was expected to confer with General Zinni.

A dozen Israeli soldiers armed with M-16 assault rifles first fired half a dozen warning shots in the air to frighten off the journalists. One soldier then fired in the direction of the reporters, and one shot hit the bulletproof windshield of CNN's vehicle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/06/international/middleeast/06JOUR.html

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