(3 Oct 2000) Natural Sound
There have been scenes of intense grief and anger in the West Bank, as Palestinians held the funerals of those killed in the recent days' clashes with Israeli security forces.
In Israel too, mourners buried one of eight Israeli Arabs killed in clashes on Monday.
But as the funerals went ahead, Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops exchanged fire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, ending a tentative ceasefire that lasted barely half a day and threatening hopes of reviving Mideast peace.
Israeli Arabs buried their dead on Tuesday in the northern West Bank Arab Israeli town of Nazareth.
Eyad Lawabnea was killed during Monday's riots in Nazareth, Jesus' boyhood home where Israeli Arabs have been staging a general strike in sympathy with Palestinian brethren.
Earlier on Tuesday Israeli Arab leaders had a meeting lasting three and a half hours with Barak in Jerusalem.
They accused the police of using live ammunition and rubber bullets against their constituents because they are Arabs.
They argued that with Jewish demonstrators tear gas is the worst that could be expected.
Barak desperately fights for political survival, trying to appease Arab legislators who are threatening to topple him over the harsh police crackdown on rioters in Israel's Arab towns.
The internal rebellion, the worst since Israel's founding, has paralysed large parts of the country.
In Nablus, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets for the funeral of one of the young victims of five days of clashes with Israeli security forces.
This 16-year-old young man was killed during fighting on Monday in this West Bank town.
Palestinian gunmen carrying automatic weapons led the funeral procession.
Even as the funerals went ahead, Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops exchanged fire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, ending a ceasefire that lasted barely half a day.
Later, as gunmen returned from this funeral, they fired on a tiny Israeli enclave.
The violence, sparked by opposition Likud party leader Ariel Sharon's visit to a holy Jerusalem site, has claimed more than 50 lives so far - most Palestinian.
In Ramallah, there were similar outpourings of grief, with mourners marching through the streets carrying aloft the body of another man killed on Monday.
Again, as the funeral went ahead, there were reports of shots being fired in the West Bank town.
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders will attend talks in Paris with U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who's trying hard to salvage the peace process.
But the Palestinians say peace talks should be revived only if there's an international inquiry into Israel's actions.
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