Bethlehem, Ramallah, Hebron, Sakhnin, West Bank, 30 March 1998
Bethlehem, West Bank
1. Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinians
2. Palestinians taking cover
3. Close shot Palestinian man throwing stones
4. Close shot Israeli soldier firing
5. Wide shot group of Israeli soldiers
Ramallah, West Bank
6 Wide shot Palestinians and Israeli soldiers clash
7. Palestinian police preventing kids from throwing stones
8. Mid shot Palestinian police detaining man
9. Palestinian police detaining stone throwers
10. Israeli soldiers firing
11. Palestinian boy throwing stones
Hebron, West Bank
12. Mid shot Islamic Jihad marchers holding up portraits of Islamic Jihad leaders
13. Wide shot Islamic Jihad marchers
14. Islamic activists burning flags
15. Activist's masked face
16. Wide shot Islamic Jihad activists
Sakhnin, Israel
17. Wide shot marchers
18. Mid shot marchers
19. Mid shot march
20. Mid shot marchers chanting and clapping
21. Mid shot boy with Palestinian flag
22. Wide, high shot of march
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Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli troops clashed in the West Bank on Monday as U-S envoy Dennis Ross wrapped up his four-day Mideast tour.
The protests were held to mark Land Day, an annual commemoration of a 1976 protest against land confiscation in which six Israeli Arabs were killed by Israeli troops.
Tensions rose still higher as Ross failed to secure agreement from Israelis and Palestinians on American proposals for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Monday's tensions hinged on Palestinian commemoration of Land Day -- an annual day of marches to remember a land confiscation protest twenty years ago, in which six people died.
The victims of the protest in 1976 were Israeli Arabs -- they were killed by Israeli soldiers.
Over two decades later, the violence continues.
on Monday, Israeli troops and Palestinians were locked in combat on West Bank streets, with Bethlehem becoming the site of running battles.
Palestinians hurled stones.
Israeli soldiers responded with rubber bullets.
Other clashes erupted in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Here too dozens of youths threw stones at soldiers.
They responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Palestinian police also stepped into the fray.
They pushed back the youths in a bid to break up the clashes.
Marching in Hebron, meanwhile, members of Islamic Jihad turned their anger towards the United States.
Marchers of the fundamentalist group gathered at the town's Islamic university where they burned the Israeli and American flags.
In the Israeli Arab town of Sakhnin thousands of Israeli Arabs gathered to commemorate Land Day.
Chanting national songs they filed through the streets.
The unrest came at a particularly bleak time for Middle East peace.
Wrapping up a four-day shuttle on Monday, American envoy Dennis Ross failed to win agreement from Israelis and Palestinians on U-S peace proposals.
Ross has been trying to win support for an American proposal for an Israeli withdrawal from a percentage of the West Bank.
He is unlikely to have any good news to convey to the U-S president when he returns to Washington.
