VARIOUS: US. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NAEAR EAST TOURS REMAINS OF JENIN REFUGEE CAMP/ SIEGE OF BETHLEHAM'S CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY CONTINUES
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VARIOUS: US. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NAEAR EAST TOURS REMAINS OF JENIN REFUGEE CAMP/ SIEGE OF BETHLEHAM'S CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY CONTINUES
- Title: VARIOUS: US. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NAEAR EAST TOURS REMAINS OF JENIN REFUGEE CAMP/ SIEGE OF BETHLEHAM'S CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY CONTINUES
- Date: 19th April 2002
- Summary: (U5) JENIN, WEST BANK (APRIL 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NEAR EAST, WILLIAM BURNS, TOURING LEVELLED AREA OF JENIN REFUGEE CAMP 0.06 2. SMV BURNS SHAKING HANDS WITH PALESTINIANS IN CAMP 0.11 3. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NEAR EAST, WILLIAM BURNS, SAYING: "As I said before, what were seeing here is a terrible human tragedy, and its obvious what's happened in Jenin camp has caused enormous human suffering for thousand of Palestinians. It's very important that the United Nations is launching a fact-finding mission to try to determine exactly what happened here with the co-operation of Palestinians and Israelis. It's extremely important that full and complete access be allowed for relief agencies so they can continue the work that is so desperately needed." 0.43 4. SMV BURNS TALKING WITH PALESTINIANS IN CAMP 0.50 5. WIDE OF FLOODED AND MUDDY STREET INSIDE CAMP 0.54 6. WIDE/ PULLOUT OF PALESTINIAN FLAGS ON TOP OF HEAP OF RUBBLE INSIDE DEMOLISHED AREA OF CAMP 1.03 7. SLV PEOPLE ON PORCH OF WRECKED HOUSE 1.05 8. WIDE OF PEOPLE SITTING ON PILES OF DEBRIS 1.10 9. SLV WOMAN AND GIRL WALKING THROUGH RUINED STREET 1.19 10. SLV WOMEN HUGGING NEAR DESTROYED HOUSES 1.26 11. SLV BOYS SLIPPING INTO HOLE IN MOUND OF DEBRIS 1.32 12. WIDE SHOT OF BULLDOZER AMIDST DEBRIS, CROWD OF PEOPLE LOOKING ON 1.40 (U3) JENIN, WEST BANK (APRIL 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. SLV RESCUE WORKERS PULLING BODIES OF DEAD PALESTINIANS IN PLASTIC SHEETS ALONG GROUND TO BE WRAPPED IN WHITE SHEETS 1.51 14. SMV/ WIDE MAN WRITING IDENTIFICATION DETAILS ON PALESTINIAN BODY WRAPPED IN WHITE SHROUD/ SHEETING/ BODIES IN WHITE SHEETS (2 SHOTS) 2.01 15. BODIES BEING PUT ON A TRUCK (2 SHOTS) 2.16 16. VARIOUS, TRUCK CARRYING BODIES BEING DRIVEN THROUGH REFUGEE CAMP 2.30 17. SLV RED CROSS WORKERS WALKING IN JENIN REFUGEE CAMP 2.45 (W5) BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (APRIL 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 18. WIDE TOP VIEW OF TOWN/ CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY 2.51 19. WIDE OF ISRAELI SOLDIER ON TANK 2.53 20. SLV PULLOUT ISRAELI SOLDIERS STANDING IN DOORWAY AND MOVING IN TO SEARCH BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 3.07 21. SLV ISRAELI SOLDIER CROUCHING IN DOORWAY WITH GUN 3.11 22. SMV ISRAELI SOLDIERS LOOKING AT MAP 3.16 23. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS WALKING DOWN STREET/ DEBRIS IN FOREGROUND (2 SHOTS) 3.28 24. WIDE / PAN UP TO CHURCH IN SQUARE 3.32 25. VARIOUS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN RUNNING IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 3.46 26. SLV OLD WOMAN AND CHILDREN WALKING PAST 3.53 27. SCU BREAD IN BAG 3.56 28. WIDE OF RESIDENTS IN SQUARE 4.01 29. WIDE OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS GUARDING END OF STREET STANDING BY PILE OF RUBBISH 4.08 30. SLV RESIDENTS AT OTHER END OF STREET 4.15 31. WIDE OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS GUARDING END OF STREET/ RESIDENTS AT OTHER END 4.19 (U5) NABLUS, WEST BANK (APRIL 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 32. WIDE OF TRUCK WITH SIGN "THE JOINT EMERGENCY RELIEF OF THE CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS" 4.21 33. WIDE OF BOXES BEING UNLOADED NEXT TO TRUCK/PEOPLE AROUND 4.30 34. WIDE OF STREET WITH AID CARS LINED UP/ ISRAELI TANK MOVING IN BACKGROUND 4.41 35. SMV CRS ( CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES AID ORGANIZATION) FLAG ON CAR 4.44 36. SLV TRUCK MANOEUVRING 4.49 37. WIDE OF DESERTED STREET/ EXTERIOR TURKISH BATHS 4.55 38. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF DESTROYED TURKISH BATHS WITH MAN PICKING UP WRECKAGE, MISSILE FRAGMENTS FROM GROUND 5.03 39. VARIOUS, HOLE IN CEILING WALL/ PAN TO DESTROYED INTERIOR 5.12 40. SCU/ PAN DOWN HOLE IN WALL/ DEBRIS 5.23 (U5) RAFAH, GAZA (APRIL 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 41. WIDE OF DESTROYED STREET WITH BULLDOZER CLEARING RUBBLE 5.28 42. WIDE OF DESTROYED STREET 5.35 43. WIDE OF SMOKE RISING FROM DEBRIS/ AUDIO OF GUNFIRE 5.43 44. SLV BOYS IN STREET 5.46 45. WIDE OF SMOKE ON STREET/ AUDIO OF GUNFIRE 5.58 46. VARIOUS, WOUNDED BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 6.07 (W8) HAIFA, ISRAEL (APRIL 20, 2002) (IBA - NO ACCESS ISRAEL) 47. VARIOUS, MARCHERS CHANTING/SPEAKER ADDRESSING MARCHERS (2 SHOTS) 6.28 48. VARIOUS, MARCHERS WITH BANNERS AND FLAGS (3 SHOTS) 6.48 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 4th May 2002 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: JENIN, BETHLEHEM AND NABLUS, WEST BANK/RAFAH, GAZA, HAIFA
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA997MOSTZARPO0PNLYZ8M2ZQRJ
- Story Text: William Burns, the U.S. assistant secretary of state
for the Near East, has toured the devastated West Bank refugee
camp of Jenin a day after an Israeli pullout ended two weeks
of reoccupation. The siege of Bethlehem's Church of the
Nativity continues, with Israel insisting its troops will stay
near the church until the surrender of Palestinian gunmen
holed up inside. Church organisations have delivered much-needed
food supplies to the West Bank city of Nablus. In Rafah, Gaza, six
Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli gunfire. Israel said
the Palestinians attacked soldiers with pipe bombs and Molotov
cocktails.
U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Middle East
William Burns said on Saturday (April 20) a "terrible human
tragedy" had taken place in Jenin.
Jenin suffered the worst fighting in Israel's West Bank
offensive unleashed on March 29 after suicide bombers, part of
a Palestinian uprising against occupation, killed scores of
people inside Israel.
"....what's happened in Jenin camp has caused enormous
human suffering for thousand of Palestinians, " Burns said.
He said it was "very important that the United Nations is
launching a fact-finding mission to try to determine exactly
what happened here with the co-operation of Palestinians and
Israelis."
Burns also stressed the importance of "full and complete
access" for relief agencies "so they can continue the work
that is so desperately needed."
He declined to comment on whether he saw evidence of a
massacre Palestinians allege was committed by the Israeli
army.
Israel denies any massacre, saying its troops tried to
minimise casualties in what was a "hornets' nest" of
terrorists.
At the United Nations in New York late on Friday,
delegates voted unanimously to send a "fact-finding team" to
Jenin, backing a U.S.-drafted resolution after Washington
threatened to veto a measure put forward by Arab states that
had called for a formal U.N. investigation of "massacres" in
the camp.
Israel promised on Saturday (April 20) to cooperate with
the U.N. mission to probe its crushing assault on the Jenin
refugee camp, saying it had nothing to hide in the face of
Palestinian accusations of a massacre.
An Israeli army spokesman said all its forces had
withdrawn from the camp apart from some soldiers now
extracting bodies for burial by families. Staff of the
International Committee of the Red Cross were observing their
activities.
But while the army said it had left Jenin and its camp, it
remained deployed around them to keep Palestinian fighters
from slipping out into nearby Israel.
A Jenin hospital official said the body count in the
refugee camp had risen to 39 but added that it could climb to
between 200 and 400. Israel says about 70 Palestinians died,
mostly fighters. Twenty-three Israeli troops were killed in
Jenin.
Israeli troops on Saturday patrolled the streets of
Bethlehem, conducting house searches in their continuing hunt
for weapons and gunmen they believe are responsible for
attacks on Israeli citizens in Israel.
At the Church of the Nativity, the standoff continued
between troops and Palestinians sheltering inside.
More than than 200 people, including Palestinian gunmen
and foreign clergy, have been holed up inside the church, one
of Christianity's holiest sites since tanks rolled into the
city on April 2.
Israel says the army will stay near the church until the
gunmen surrender.
The stand off has meant that Bethlehem is under an almost
permanent curfew.
Trucks carrying boxes of food arrived in the West Bank
city of Nablus on Saturday.
The aid had been gathered by Christian organisations,
including World Vision and CRS.
Meanwhile, residents continue to survey destruction from
days of pounding from Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships.
Debris and rubble litter the floors of Nablus' famed
Turkish baths. The walls have been shattered by tank and
mortar shells.
In southern Gaza, on Israel's southern border, meanwhile,
six Palestinians were wounded by Israeli machine-gun fire, one
seriously. The army said Palestinians had thrown pipebombs and
Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.
Peace protesters marched through Haifa on Saturday (April
20), calling for Israel to end its occupation of the West
Bank.
Several people were killed and dozens wounded several
weeks ago when a suicide bomber blew himself up by a bus just
outside Haifa.
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