The Palestine Chronology

PA Economics M Qurai` says 7/25 target date for signing accord will be missed, intensive talks will continue; cites water, redeployment, security as major sticking points. (WT 7/23; CSM, NYT 7/24)

At weekly PA cabinet mtg., Planning M Shaath says Israel has agreed to release 2,541 Palestinian prisoners in 2 groups: 1st when interim agmt. is signed, 2d 2 mos later. 2,200 of those prisoners will be Hamas, Islamic Jihad mbrs. (VOP 7/22 in FBIS 7/24) (see 7/20)

Israeli Civil Administration expropriates 18 dunums of Palestinian farm land nr. Jenin for construction of military bases following IDF redeployment. (HA 7/23 in FBIS 7/26)

IDF detains 3 American peace activists after they force open gates to the Islamic College of Hebron. Army reseals gates, which were welded shut following Palestinian antioccupation demonstrations in 1988. (WP, WT 7/23; JP 7/29)

In Cairo, mtg. of the technical comm. on refugees closes without any progress. (VOP 7/6 in FBIS 7/11)

Israeli Interior Min. reports that an unprecedented number of Jerusalem Arabs are requesting Israeli citizenship: 687 heads of households in 1st 6 mos of 1995 in comparison with 430 in all of 1994; 260 in 1993; 170 in 1992. (JP 7/6 in FBIS 7/6)

Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike after an announcement that the Israel-PA deal extending self-rule in the West Bank will include a staged prisoner release. (VOP 7/6 in FBIS 7/6; PR 7/9; QY 7/9 in FBIS 7/10; CSM, WP, WT 7/10)

Settlers block Qalqiliyya-Nablus road, move mobile homes onto hill nr. Kedumim settlement in protest over planned IDF redeployment. (MM 6/7)

IDF raids Jenin Waqf office, confiscates alleged Hamas material. (QY 7/9 in FBIS 7/12)