GAZA/JERUSALEM: PALESTINIANS PARTICIPATE IN AN ANTI WAR RALLY AS THE ISRAELI ARMY CONTINUE ITS RAID INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE GAZA STRIP

Record ID: 208480

  • Title: GAZA/JERUSALEM: PALESTINIANS PARTICIPATE IN AN ANTI WAR RALLY AS THE ISRAELI ARMY CONTINUE ITS RAID INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE GAZA STRIP
  • Date: 23rd February 2003
  • Summary: (W5) RAFAH, GAZA (FEBRUARY 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. TV HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS TAKING PART IN ANTI WAR RALLY 0.10 2. SV/MCU DEMONSTRATOR HOLDING A PICTURE OF IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT (2 SHOTS) 0.25 3. TV YOUNG CHILDREN POSING AS BODIES, LYING ON STRETCHERS **EDITORS PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A MOCK FUNERAL** 0.33 4. CU POSTERS READING 'THE KILLERS ARE AMERICA AND ISRAEL' 0.38 5. SLV DEMONSTRATOR BURNING THE U.S AND THE BRITISH FLAGS 0.49 6. SV WOMAN BURNING A POSTER OF U.S PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH 0.57 7. SLV DEMONSTRATORS BURNING A MODEL OF A WAR PLANE 1.05 8. SLV DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING CARRYING CHILDREN ON THE STRETCHER 1.14 (U3) BEIT HANOUN, GAZA (FEBRUARY 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. LV PALESTINIAN YOUTHS THROWING STONES AT AN ISRAELI TANK/ AUDIO OF MACHINE GUN FIRE FROM TANK 1.26 10. SV SOLDIER ON TOP OF TANK 1.30 11. LV TANK DRIVING TOWARDS THE YOUTHS/ YOUTHS RUNNING AWAY 1.41 12. SLV/CU APC ARRIVING/SOLDIER ON APC WATCHING (2 SHOTS) 1.54 13. LV TANK DRIVING TOWARS THE YOUTHS 2.01 14. GV HELICOPTER HOVERING ABOVE 2.09 (W4) BEIT HANOUN, GAZA (FEBRUARY 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 15. SLV CROWD OF PEOPLE NEXT TO WALL (2 SHOTS) 2.16 16. SLV MASKED MAN FIRING FROM BEHIND THE CORNER 2.26 17. SV OTHER GUNMEN SIGNALLING AT THE MAN FIRING 2.33 18. SV MASKED MAN FIRING FROM BEHIND THE CORNER 2.48 (W5) JERUSALEM (FEBRUARY 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 19. SV RA'ANAN GISSIN, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON'S ADVISOR/CU OF HANDS (2 SHOTS) 2.57 20. MCU (English) RA'ANAN GISSIN, PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON'S ADVISOR, TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL'S RAIDS IN GAZA AND NABLUS, SAYING: "So this operation, which takes place in both places, is a sustained operation which will continue for several weeks to make certain that there are not more Qassam rockets fired at Israeli villages and towns and that suicide bombers are stopped at the doorsteps of their homes". 3.16 (W5) BEIT HANOUN, GAZA (FEBRUARY 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 21. LV BODIES OF TWO PALESTINIAN MEN ON THE GROUND/ISRAELI SOLDIER CHECKING THE BODIES 3.22 22. LV TANK DRIVING PAST THE BODIES 3.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: RAFAH AND BEIT HANOUN,GAZA/ JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA46WESE6W7FVOHYPOOCCWCTJHI
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians have participated in an anti
    war raIly in southern Gaza as the Israeli army continued its
    raid into the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Six
    Palestinians were killed in the operation which Israel said
    was aimed at destroying the militants' infrastructure.



    Palestinians took to the streets on Sunday (February
    23) in support of Iraq and its president Saddam Hussein. In a
    demonstration in Rafah, in southern Gaza, the protesters
    burned the United States and the British flags, and carried
    posters of Saddam and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

    Earlier, the demonstrators carried stretchers with young
    children who posed as bodies. In another corner of the
    protest, men burned a cardboard model of a United Kingdom
    warplane.

    The demonstration took place hours after Israeli forces
    killed seven Palestinians, at least five of them armed, in the
    northern Gaza Strip. It was the latest phase of the army's
    week-old offensive against Islamic militant strongholds.

    Israeli armoured columns backed by helicopter gunships
    rumbled into the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in
    the early hours of Sunday morning (February 23), battling
    gunmen and destroying the homes of six Islamic militants.

    Palestinian sources said six Palestinians were killed in
    Beit Hanoun, including four gunmen and members of the
    Palestinian security forces and one stone-thrower.

    The Israeli army said that a seventh Palestinian, armed
    with an AK-47 assault rifle and hand grenades, was killed
    during an attempt to infiltrate the Jewish settlement of
    Netzarim in central Gaza.

    The deaths raised to 41 the number of Palestinians killed
    this week, most in Israeli military raids into the Gaza Strip.

    Raanan Gissin, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
    advisor, said of the raids:
    "This operation which takes place in both places is a
    sustained operation which will continue for several weeks to
    make certain that there are not more Qassam rockets fired at
    Israeli villages and towns and that suicide bombers are
    stopped at the doorsteps of their homes,"
    At least 1,868 Palestinians and 705 Israelis have been
    killed since the Palestinian uprising began in September 2000.




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