Violence raged across the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to meet with President Clinton in Washington. Palestinian gunmen fired at Israeli troops in Hebron and Ramallah. Near Bethlehem, a Jewish settler shot and wounded a 16-year-old Palestinian who had been stoning a passing Israeli car. Palestinian militants in Gaza detonated two roadside bombs, but no one was hurt.
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