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GABY RADO: Yesterday's fatalities, both Palestinians, were buried today. Nobody knows if they're to be the last funerals in the current cycle of violence. ZIAD ABU ZAYAD: It's true that people are very angry, and the situation is very difficult. And there is a strong position against Sharm el-Sheikh and signing an agreement in Sharm el-Sheikh. But if this agreement will be translated positively on the ground and the people have a positive outcome of the meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, I believe that this will help much to calm the situation.
SHEIKH YASIN: (speaking through interpreter) We will continue our resistance to the occupation and the uprising will continue. All options are open to our people. GABY RADO: On the streets, many also dismissed the summit. MAN ON STREET: (speaking through interpreter) It is not a good result. I feel all the bloodshed of our Palestinian brothers has been in vain. We want the uprising to go on. MAN ON STREET: (speaking through interpreter) We are asking God, the Arabs, and especially the Palestinian negotiators to stop playing this game, which is bringing more bloodshed to our country. GABY RADO: Late this afternoon, a troubling incident after three members of the Israeli security forces were hit by bullets on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Two tanks were deployed, and an evacuation was ordered of the adjacent Arab neighborhood. |
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SUAREZ: The agreement President Clinton brokered between Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat calls for three
things. Both sides have agreed to make public statements demanding an
end to the violence, and take other steps to eliminate points of friction.
The United States will set up a committee to investigate the events
of the past several weeks. And the United States will consult with both
sides on how to move forward in the peace process. Our coverage begins
with this report on the reaction to the agreement by Gaby Rado of Independent
Television News. 
GABY
RADO: This is what the Israeli side is demanding an end to within 48
hours, the kind of stone-throwing and burning barricades seen on the
Gaza Strip today just around the time President Clinton read out the
terms of the latest accord. There's little doubt such protests are orchestrated,
but not necessarily by Yasser Arafat himself. On the other side, this
is what the Palestinians want to seen withdrawn from the outskirts of
their towns, heavy Israeli weapons deployed in positions outside Ramallah
on the West Bank since the recent crisis flared up. Just after news
from the summit came through the local military commander gave his reaction.
COL.
GAL HIRSH: There were many agreements that was achieved. We were doing
our best in order to fulfill them and to applicate them. We, as Israeli
defense forces, has done all our duties and all the application that
we signed for, but the Palestinian side never did the same. 
GABY
RADO: But those are far more menacing postscripts to the summit from
the leader of the Islamic resistance group Hamas.