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Face-to-Face Meeting Between Arafat and Barak Less Likely as Israeli-Palestinian Violence Escalates

Aired October 3, 2000 - 1:06 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: In other news now, it has been another violent day in the West Bank. A cease-fire did not last long and in some places, the bloody street fighting between Palestinians and Israeli forces is getting worse.

Our Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna joins us now with the latest -- Mike.

MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Natalie, another day of violence, and meetings will be held in Paris tomorrow in an attempt to end the violence. The word from the Palestinian Authority is that the authority chairman, Yasser Arafat, will travel to Paris. He will meet U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He will meet the French president Jacques Chirac, but, says the Palestinian Authority, there will be no face-to-face meeting with Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak while the current violence continues at the levels that we've seen through the course of the day. And it has been widespread in towns and villages through the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, at least three Palestinians reported killed on this day.

My colleague Jerrold Kessel spent much of the day near the West Bank town of Ramallah, and this is what he saw:

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JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This clash, which has been on a low intensity for the last several hours seems to be picking up now as a number of fire bombs and Molotov cocktails, in addition to the rocks being thrown from the young Palestinian demonstrators, who you see rushing through the smoke, towards those number of Israeli military Jeeps, now lined up in a row just outside that junction. And there's another one of those Molotov cocktails. And we've heard some live fire for the first time crackling through the hills here of this hilltop Palestinian town.

For the most part of this day, until early afternoon, this had been a pastoral scene, literally, with traffic flowing normal -- normally in and out of the town of Ramallah. The Israelis had withdrawn their soldiers. And then, in the wake of a funeral of one of the Palestinians who had been killed in the clashes yesterday, several hundred had marched towards this junction on the northern outskirts of the Palestinian town. The Israelis then raced down in their Jeeps and began to confront them. And then this -- there had been a standoff, a running standoff if you like, if you'll forgive that contradiction in terms, for several hours and now suddenly it's taken on a fresh degree of intensity. An ambulance making its way, away there from a Palestinian ambulance. And now this clash has really picked up. A reflection, perhaps, of things that have gone on throughout the day in several points on the West Bank.

The efforts to lunch that cease-fire, at first, seemed successful but now seem to be breaking down dramatically in advance of that meeting in Paris tomorrow of Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak.

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HANNA: CNN's Jerrold Kessel near the West Bank town of Ramallah.

The death toll now over 50 according to most reports. Talks in Paris Wednesday, aimed at ending the violence -- Natalie.

ALLEN: All right, Mike Hanna, thanks so much, from Jerusalem.

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