- Title: GAZA: RALLY HELD FOR SUICIDE BOMBER MA'WYA ROKA
- Date: 28th June 1995
- Summary: KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA (JUNE 28, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. CU PAINTING OF SUICIDE BOMBER MA'WYA ROKA 0.05 2. SCU PLO (PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION) FLAGS 0.10 3. SV UNIDENTIFIED HAMAS LEADER ADDRESSING CROWD 0.19 4. SV AUDIENCE CLAPPING HANDS AND SHOUTING (2 SHOTS) 0.34 5. SV DEMONSTRATORS SHOOT GUNS INTO TH
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- Location: KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA
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- Story Text: Thousands of the militant Moslem movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad held a rally for suicide bomber Ma'wya Roka at Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza on Wednesday (June 28).
Roka was killed earlier this week when he blew up a donkey cart laden with explosives in an area of Jewish settlements in the southern Gaza Strip.
During the rally, Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades (the military wing of Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement) claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing.
Islamic Jihad and Hamas have both carried out suicide car bomb attacks on Israeli targets since the signing of the Israeli-PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) peace deal in 1993.
Following Sunday's attack, leading PLO peace negotiator Nabil Sha'ath said that Hamas had violated an agreement reached with the Palestinian Authority in charge of Palestinian self-rule areas to refrain from violence.
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