VARIOUS: PEACE DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE OFFICES OF ARIEL SHARON/ ISRAELI TROOPS AND PALESTINIAN YOUTHS CLASH IN GAZA.

Record ID: 230548

  • Title: VARIOUS: PEACE DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE OFFICES OF ARIEL SHARON/ ISRAELI TROOPS AND PALESTINIAN YOUTHS CLASH IN GAZA.
  • Date: 24th February 2002
  • Summary: (W5) HEBRON, WEST BANK (FEBRUARY 23, 2002) (REUTERS - (ACCESS ALL) (SEE 2189/02 FOR FULL DETAILS) 1. FUNERAL PROCESSION IN STREET 2. CROWD CARRYING BODY WRAPPED IN PALESTINIAN FLAG 3. CHANTING MOURNERS WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAGS 4. WRAPPED BODY CARRIED THROUGH STREET, MEN CHANTING "ALLAHU AKBAR" (GOD IS GREATER) 5. WRAPPED BODY CARRIED IN CROWD 6. MEN CHANTING, SHOWING FISTS 7. PROCESSION 8. WOMAN LOOKING OUT WINDOW, GESTURING, PAN TO CHANTING CROWD 9. PROCESSION 10. THREE MALE RELATIVES WALKING PAST ARM IN ARM 11. PROCESSION GOING PAST 1.06 (W6) RAFAH, GAZA (FEBRUARY 23, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 12. LV: ISRAELI TANK FIRING 1.11 13. LV/GV: AUDIO OF GUN FIRE/ PEOPLE IN THE DISTANCE CROUCHING AT THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE/ PEOPLE IN THE DISTANCE (3 SHOTS) 1.29 14. GV: ISRAELI TANK FIRING 1.37 15. GV/MV: MASKED GUNMAN FIRING AROUND A CORNER/ PALESTINIAN YOUTHS RUNNING (2 SHOTS) 1.45 16. MV/GV: INJURED PALESTINIAN INSIDE AMBULANCE/ AMBULANCE DRIVING OFF (2 SHOTS) 1.56 17. GV/PAN: INJURED PALESTINIAN ARRIVING AT THE HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 2.02 18. MV/CU: DOCTORS TENDING TO PALESTINIAN'S WOUNDED LEG (2 SHOTS) 2.12 19. GV/CU: PALESTINIAN YOUTH WITH OPEN WOUND IN HIS BACK/ OPEN WOUND (2 SHOTS) 2.18 (W7) JERUSALEM (FEBRUARY 23, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 25. GV/MV/PAN: TWO AMBULANCES ARRIVING TO EIN KAREM HOSPITAL/ VARIOUS OF WOUNDED BEING ROLLED OUT OF AMBULANCES INTO EMERGENCY ROOM (3 SHOTS) 3.01 (W7) JERUSALEM (FEBRUARY 23, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 26. GV/MV: NIGHT SHOT OF PEACE NOW DEMONSTRATION NEAR PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE/ WIDE OF DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING PLACARDS/ ISRAEL SOLDIERS STANDING BY/ PEOPLE STANDING IN STREET (5 SHOTS) 3.23 27. MVU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) RAN COHEN, KNESSET MEMBER OF LEFT-WING MERETZ PARTY, SAYING: "(We are here) because you see the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed during the last period of the policy of (Israeli Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon. We would like to check it because it is not just to kill each other, Israelis and Palestinians and we call to stop it and go to the ceasefire for both sides and to recognise the right of the Palestinians for the creation of their own state all along the state of Israel and the agreed borders will be the borders between Israel and the Palestinians. But we call (on) the Palestinians to stop the violence and to stop calling for the right of return to the state of Israel. Jews will return to Israel, Palestinians will return to the Palestinian state. That we call here for all the peace coalitions of Israel." 4.26 28. MV/GV: PEACE NOW SUPPORTERS HOLDING UP PLACARDS DEMANDING ISRAEL PULL OUT OF THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES/ WIDE OF DEMONSTRATORS (3 SHOTS) 4.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK AND RAFAH, GAZA/ JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA50BKS3F8QBGTYIAGGIX35QUFZ
  • Story Text: Thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a
    Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers whilst running,
    unarmed, towards a military post in the dead of night.

    And in Gaza a firefight broke out between Palestinian
    youths and Israeli forces wounding more than ten people.

    Some one hundred supporters of the "Peace Now" movement
    have gathered near the offices of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
    to demand a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians.



    It was another day of mourning for thousands of angry
    Palestinians who marched through the streets of the divided
    West Bank town of Hebron on Saturday (February 23) for the
    funeral of a Palestinian shot dead earlier by Israeli forces.

    An army statement said Israeli forces had spotted a
    'suspicious figure' running towards them at night shouting
    'Allahu Akbar' (God is greater) and that they had shot him
    dead, somewhere near the West Bank village of Halhoul.

    Voice of Palestine Radio said he had been shot several
    times in the head.

    A few hours later, Israelis and Palestinians exchanged
    fire in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, where Israeli tanks
    fired at youths in the streets.

    At least 16 Palestinians were injured in a firefight
    between Palestinian youths and Israelis forces through the
    streets of the town that houses mainly Palestinian refugees.

    Masked Palestinians fired randomly as ambulances drove by
    to pick up the wounded.

    Some of them were rushed to hospital by car.

    Later, Palestinian gunmen wounded two Israelis in a
    shooting on a road near the West Bank city of Ramallah,
    Israeli security sources said.

    The injured were rushed to the Ein Karem hospital in
    Jerusalem.

    Later on Saturday evening, some one hundred supporters of
    the "Peace Now" movement gathered near the offices of Prime
    Minister Ariel Sharon to
    demand a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians.

    "It is not just to kill each other, Israelis and
    Palestinians and we call (for a) ceasefire (on) both sides and
    to recognise the right of the Palestinians for the creation of
    their own state," Ran Cohen, a member of the left-wing Meretz
    party in the Knesset, said.

    Cohen said his party also called on the Palestinians to
    stop the violence and abandon the call for the right of return
    to the state of Israel.

    "Jews will return to Israel, Palestinians will return to
    the Palestinian state," he said.

    At least 890 Palestinians and 274 Israelis have been
    killed since a Palestinian uprising against occupation began
    after peace talks broke down in 2000.


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