DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Today's look at CNN's 20th anniversary.</s>JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Palestinian police unleashed a deafening barrage of gunfire above Gaza City's Old Parliament building early Wednesday, as they celebrated their takeover of the city.</s>CLANCY: Israel had come to the conclusion that it had to negotiate with the PLO. It also came to the conclusion that it could not control, particularly in Gaza, could not control the Palestinian militants. In reaching a peaceful solution with the PLO, part of that required that the PLO deployed their own armed forces. I don't think anyone really realized that the peace deal had meaning until and unless they could see their own armed police arriving. That was a signal they were in charge of their own destiny, that they would enforce their own laws, that they would look after their own interests. The justice would be in their hands rather than in the hands of someone who was occupying them.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of us are happy to get our rights.</s>CLANCY: There was a period in time after 1948 that the Palestinians were not said to be a people. They were said to be just Arabs that lived on the land, with no special rights, with no special claim to the lands, and suddenly, after all of the years, after all of the struggles, it was defined.
CNN 20: PLO Assumes Control of the Gaza Strip, May 16, 1994