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CNN Sunday Morning

New Violence Rocks West Bank

Aired April 15, 2001 - 08:11   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: As hundreds of Christians gather in Jerusalem to celebrate Easter Sunday, there is new violence this weekend in Tel Aviv and in the West Bank.

We get the latest from CNN's Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna, joining us on the line now -- Mike.

MIKE HANNA, JERUSALEM BUREAU CHIEF: Well, Miles, in the course of the morning an explosion near the West Bank town of Kalkilia (ph), which the Israeli Defense Force says was a pipe bomb planted alongside the road near an Israeli army outpost. Nobody was injured in that blast. However, overnight there were two blasts in an area near Tel Aviv, the neighborhood of Kafarsaba (ph) and a 70-year-old Israeli man was injured in one of those blasts. The blasts occurred within an hour of each other. Israeli police say both were pipe bomb explosions.

Also on Saturday, a major incident in the north of Israel where Hezbollah guerrillas fired at an Israeli outpost near the border with southern Lebanon. One Israeli soldier was killed when the tank in which he was traveling was struck by the missile. Israel responded with cross border air strikes for the first time in over six months and also a lot of artillery barrages into that area in southern Lebanon, which is controlled by Hezbollah.

Also on Saturday, skirmishes between Israelis and Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. At least 40 Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces moved into a refugee camp near the border down of Raiffa (ph). This area under the full control of Palestinians, Area A, the second time in a week that Israeli forces have moved into areas under Palestinian security control -- Miles.

O'BRIEN: CNN's Mike Hanna on the line from Jerusalem, thanks much.

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