World News 18-10-2000 Ceasefire Agreement Mocked By More Deaths who: Ehud Barak and Yassir Arafat what: Make ceasefire agreement where: EGYPT when: Yesterday snippet: "President Bill Clinton`s declaration yesterday of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians was overshadowed by more brutal violence," reports The Mirror. "A fragile ceasefire was hammered out at an emergency summit in Egypt. But a question mark hung over when it would come into force." "After 24 hours of negotiations," says The Independent, "Ehud Barak, Israel`s Prime Minister, and Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, agreed to take `immediate, concrete measures` to end the violence, including a withdrawal by Israeli forces which have been blockading Palestinian towns and an end to its closure of the occupied territories." But across the West Bank and Gaza Strip "it didn`t look like a ceasefire," says The Guardian`s Ian Black. "With the ink barely dry on the Sharm al-Sheikh agreement, Rachel`s Tomb on the outskirts of Bethlehem was as much as a battleground yesterday afternoon as has been at any time in the bloody fortnight preceding it." To the Palestinian group Hamas, who declared that their "Intifada" uprising would continue, the peace agreement is meaningless, says The Express. "Two Palestinians were yesterday shot dead, a third died from injuries sustained in previous incidents and an Israeli policeman was left critically wounded." [... more]

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