ATW Script for 17 May 2001. The World for the week of May seventeenth, 2001. I'm Ginnie Bacheler. The European Union and North Korea establish ties.
Several elections take place around the world.
Peace plans are considered while fighting between the Palestinians and the Israelis continues. Five Palestinian police were killed in a West Bank gun battle with Israeli troops early Monday. Palestinian police confirmed that the five officers were killed in the gun battle but did not comment on how the fighting began. The shootings followed a night of heavy attacks by the Israeli army on Gaza City. Israeli rockets hit a Palestinian police compound, which also housed the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.