GAZA: AROUND 2000 PALESTINIANS RALLY AT JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP AS ISRAELI FORCES CONTINUE THEIR SEARCH FOR BODY PARTS OF SIX SOLDIERS KILLED IN RAID ON THEIR ARMOURED VEHICLE IN THE GAZA STRIP

Record ID: 215385

  • Title: GAZA: AROUND 2000 PALESTINIANS RALLY AT JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP AS ISRAELI FORCES CONTINUE THEIR SEARCH FOR BODY PARTS OF SIX SOLDIERS KILLED IN RAID ON THEIR ARMOURED VEHICLE IN THE GAZA STRIP
  • Date: 11th May 2004
  • Summary: (W8) GAZA (MAY 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV: ISRAELI TANKS IN STREETS; MISSILE HITTING TANK; SMOKE RISING 0.22 2. LV/SLV: SMOKE RISING; TANKS (2 SHOTS) 0.37 (NIGHTSHOTS) 3. TWO THOUSAND PALESTINIANS RALLYING 0.46 4. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS MARCHING WITH FLAGS, CHANTING (4 SHOTS) 1.18 Initials Script
  • Embargoed: 26th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: GAZA
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA1YH7VIO0GXRIXSCPVOMTCLIFW
  • Story Text: Thousands march in Gaza.


    Some two thousand Palestinians rallied in a Gaza
    refugee camp on Tuesday (May 11) as Israeli forces
    continued their search for the mangled body parts of six
    soldiers killed when Palestinian militants blew their
    armoured vehicle up in a raid.

    Palestinians, including masked gunmen, marched through
    the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, waving flags
    of the militant group Hamas and chanting continued revenge.

    The rally came after a deadly ambush against Israeli
    forces riding in an explosives-packed troop carrier during
    a raid in the Gaza Strip in the deadliest ambush against
    Israeli forces in 18 months.

    The armoured vehicle was torn apart after troops and
    tanks backed by helicopter gunships stormed a densely
    populated neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing eight
    Palestinians, including at least three gunmen, and wounding
    122.

    Senior Islamic Jihad political leader Khader Habib said
    militants were holding the soldiers' mangled body parts and
    would not release them until there was a total halt to
    Israeli raids and Israel opened talks on release of jailed
    fighters.

    Soldiers searched house-to-house, and the army vowed to
    stay until all of the remains had been recovered. Gunfire
    and explosions continued into the evening hours.


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