JORDAN: REFUGEES PICK UP THE THREADS OF LIFE AGAIN IN DEVASTATED, EVIL-SMELLING REFUGEE CAMP

Record ID: 1079689

  • Title: JORDAN: REFUGEES PICK UP THE THREADS OF LIFE AGAIN IN DEVASTATED, EVIL-SMELLING REFUGEE CAMP
  • Date: 5th October 1970
  • Summary: 1. SV Damaged buildings and lorries etc. (2 shots) 0.11 2. SV Children and refugees 0.29 3. GV Wreckage of buildings and cars (3 shots) 0.56 4. SCU Refugee being interviewed 1.41 5. GV's buildings with shell-holes, wrecked jeep and more buildings (4 shots) 2.05 TRANSCRIPT (SEQ 4): REPORTER: "This is a shell?" REFUGEE: "Yes". REPORTER: "It came through here?" REFUGEE: "Yes, through here". REPORTER: "And smashed the wall?" REFUGEE: "Yes, it broke the wall, round about the babies." REPORTER: "The babies in the room?" REFUGEE: "Yes the babies were in the room, and they cried, and...from here." REPORTER: "The babies, were they killed?" REFUGEE: "Not killed." REPORTER: "Were many people killed here?" REFUGEE: "Forty." REPORTER: "In this area?" REFUGEE: "In this house." REPORTER: "Why were the army shelling here, were there Fedayeen here?" REFUGEE: "The army wanted to destroy the (garbled word). REPORTER: "The Fedayeen were hiding here, were they?" REFUGEE: "They came here, they entered the house." REPORTER: "And so the army shelled the house?" REFUGEE: "Yes, shelled the house." Initials CM/PN/OS/227 CM/PN/OS/236 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th October 1970 13:00
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  • Location: AMMAN OUTSKIRTS, JORDAN
  • Country: Jordan
  • Reuters ID: LVAA3VEM4KDOWQHXBA319A5Z5Z2Y
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