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Rabin and Arafat sign a 300-page interim deal on the West Bank and Gaza

Clinton witnesses as the two leaders divide the West Bank into three zones, Areas A, B, and C.

Two years after the Oslo Declaration of Principles, the details still had to be worked out on paper. On September 28, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in Washington, D.C., with President Bill Clinton witnessing alongside representatives of Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Norway, and the European Union. The document divided the West Bank into Areas A, B, and C and set a five-year clock toward a permanent settlement. That settlement was never reached…

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