[Leon Harris, Cnn Anchor:] More violence today in the Mideast to report. The fighting has spread on streets where profits once walked, tanks now rumble. The total of dead and injured climbs again. President Clinton is calling for peace. He wants Israeli and Palestinian security officials to meet with the U.S. He spoke with leaders from both sides over the weekend. Let's get a closer look now at what's going on in the West Bank and Gaza. Joining us from Jerusalem, CNN's Jerrold Kessel Jerrold.
[Jerrold Kessel, Cnn Correspondent:] Leon, good morning. This day had been billed a turning point day, either it would turn to further escalation, or perhaps the two sides would be able to reign in the fighting on the ground and bring it under control. And the way it started, it looks as if perhaps it was tapering off, but now in the last hour or two, there have been a spread of violence, and this seems to be taking over and seems to be the feature of the day for the fifth straight day. This the scene in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, where young Palestinians took over the rooftop of an Israeli outpost at a junction there. And the Israelis have apparently abandoned the lookout post on the top of that outpost. The Palestinians clamored over the outpost, tour down the Israeli flag there; but Israeli soldiers elsewhere in that outpost or nearby began to open fire, and several of the Palestinian demonstrators at that point are reported hurt. There also reports elsewhere in the Gaza Strip of gun battles raging and also in Galilee, within Israel itself, is the Israeli-Arab citizens have again, for the second straight day, taken to the streets and engaged in battles with Israeli police. This an ominous development, the Israelis say, in the West Bank, an Israeli civilian has been shot and killed. He had driven his car across over the border between Israel and the West Bank, and he was shot and killed there, and that brings to well over 30 at least the number of people who have died in this, the worst series of confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians in several years. And the violence does not seem to be tapering off. Prime Minister Ehud Barak had warned Yasser Arafat again this morning, saying that he expects that Israel expects that the Palestinian leadership to reign in the violence. Saying it was within Mr. Arafat's powers to do so, and it could lead to the end of the peace process, if he doesn't do so. The Palestinians say that it's not their the provocation came first from Israel. Israel has been using excessive force to quell the violence. Mr. Arafat saying: Move your troops out of the area of Palestinian towns and villages. And it remains that not just a standoff, but the violence continuing to gather steam here on this fifth day. Jerrold Kessel, CNN, reporting live from Jerusalem.
[Linda Stouffer, Cnn Anchor:] Thank you, Jerrold.