WEST BANK: ISRAELI WARPLANES HAVE STRUCK TARGETS IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AFTER A WAVE OF ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS BY PALESTINIAN MILITANTS

Record ID: 208337

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI WARPLANES HAVE STRUCK TARGETS IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AFTER A WAVE OF ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS BY PALESTINIAN MILITANTS
  • Date: 19th February 2002
  • Summary: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (FEBRUARY 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV RUBBLE OF POLICE HEADQUARTERS (2 SHOTS) 0.15 3. LAS EXTERIOR OF PARTIALLY DAMAGED APARTMENT BUILDING 0.21 4. SV AMBULANCE 0.25 5. SLV DAMAGED CAR WITH DUST AND RUBBLE ON IT 0.33 6. LV PALESTINIAN SECURITY PERSONNEL IN AREA 0.40 7. PAN OF DAMAGE TO RESIDENTIAL BUILDING 0.47 8. PAN OF DAMAGED INTERIOR OF BUILDING 0.55 9. MCU (English) MARWAN BARGHOUTTI, HEAD OF FATAH IN WEST BANK, SAYING: "First of all I think this is a terrorist attack of the Israeli government and this is a bomb inside Palestinian civilians (residential area) and a lot of people a lot of -- as you know, you were walking about -- the buildings here, most of them were damaged from the Israeli aircraft's who bombed this building which was using for the special unit of Palestinian police. I think they have discovered how much the Israeli government is under the impasse of the Intifada and this will not succeed to secure the Israeli security there is one way for the security and the stability and peace is to put an end to the Israeli military occupation". 1.53 10. SV MARWAN BARGHOUTTI, LOOKING AT DAMAGE 2.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVADX80DURPQZ6F3TS5COIYSV3GC
  • Story Text: Israeli warplanes have struck targets in the
    Palestinian territories after a wave of attacks on Israelis by
    Palestinian militants.



    The strike by Israeli aircraft early on Tuesday
    morning (February 19) came hours after Palestinian militants
    killed four Israelis in separate attacks in the West Bank and
    Gaza.

    In the West Bank city of Ramallah, a missile fired by an
    Israeli warplane destroyed the police headquarters in the
    Al-Tira neighbourhood of the Palestinian-ruled city. There
    were no casualties.

    Israeli struck in retaliation for an attack by a
    Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip on Monday night
    (February 18) which killed a Jewish settler and two Israeli
    soldiers.

    Israeli jets on Tuesday also destroyed part of a security
    complex in Rafah, a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern
    Gaza Strip, witnesses said. There was no immediate word of
    casualties. The Israeli army had no immediate comment.

    In an earlier attack on Monday, a Palestinian militant
    killed himself and an Israeli policeman when he detonated
    explosives in his car near a West Bank settlement.

    But the head of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's
    Fatah faction in the West Bank, Marwan Barghoutti accused
    Israel of bombing a residential neighbourhood and said the
    only way to bring peace was for Israel to end its occupation
    of the Palestinian territories.




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