WEST BANK/ GAZA : PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE ASKS PARLIAMENT TO APPROVE HIS NEW CABINET/ ISRAELI FORCES KILL THREE PALESTINIAN MILITANTS

Record ID: 231240

  • Title: WEST BANK/ GAZA : PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE ASKS PARLIAMENT TO APPROVE HIS NEW CABINET/ ISRAELI FORCES KILL THREE PALESTINIAN MILITANTS
  • Date: 29th April 2003
  • Summary: (W5) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (APRIL 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS/ZOOM IN TO PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE MAHMOUD ABBAS, NAMING HIS LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS (3 SHOTS) 0.27 2. SMV PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT 0.30 3. SMV/ WIDE OF COMMOTION AS SENIOR PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS WALKING OUT AFTER PLC SESSION (2 SHOTS) 0.44 4. EXTERIOR , VARIOUS OF CROWD HOLDING UP PICTURES AND PLACARDS (2 SHOTS) 0.59 (W4) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (APRIL 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 5. VARIOUS, PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT AND PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE WALKING INTO PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL HALL/ YASSER ARAFAT SHAKING HANDS WITH PALESTINIAN OFFICIAL AND GIVING VICTORY SALUTE/ ABU MASEN AT ARAFAT'S SIDE 1.29 (W5) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (APRIL 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 6. WIDE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 1.37 7. SMV (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic): PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE, MAHMOUD ABBAS SAYING: "Our patriotic message/mission is that we are committed to the fight of the occupation in all its forms and shapes and in organising our our interior situation - committed to the essential law that the legislative council that president Arafat had launched - and here, the government promises in keeping this law in all it's shapes and keeping all the leadership circles. so we don't see any disrespect of it or any disorder in the society that's because our way in applying is a realistic image of our capacity in the state, and our respect of the constitution and our government will not deal easily with everyone who tries to go over the law." 2.38 8. WIDE OF LEGISLATION COUNCIL 2.46 (W3) KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (APRIL 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 9. VARIOUS, FIREMAN USING WATER HOSE ON MISSILE ATTACK SITE 3.03 10. SMV OFFICIALS SIFTING THROUGH WRECKAGE 3.14 (W3) AL KHADER, WEST BANK (APRIL 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 11. WIDE/ PAN OF SMOKE RISING FROM HOME 3.27 12. SLV AMBULANCE ARRIVING 3.33 13. SMV FAMILY WEEPING 3.45 (W5)KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (APRIL 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 145. VARIOUS, PALESTINIAN MOURNERS WITH HAMAS FLAGS CARRYING BODY OF SENIOR PALESTINIAN MILITANT (2 SHOTS) 4.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA/AL KHADER, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA5LE76R8MWH44DFT76OB6840TC
  • Story Text: Palestinian prime minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas,
    asking parliament to approve his new cabinet, has signalled
    his intention to rein in militants threatening fresh
    U.S.-backed peace moves with Israel.

    Also speaking at the session, Palestinian President Yasser
    Arafat said the success of the "road map" was important for
    the revival of a positive peace process.

    Violence marred what many Palestinians saw as an historic
    day in their struggle for a state of their own, with Israeli
    forces killing three Palestinian militants.



    With President Yasser Arafat at his side, prime
    minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday (April 29) pledged
    to end "armed chaos" in Palestinian areas, but did not say
    how.

    The militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups swiftly vowed
    not to disarm until Israeli occupation ended. At the
    session, Abbas also named his new cabinet. He also said the
    Palestinians would fulfil security and political obligations
    under the "road map" and urged Israel to do the same.

    A Palestinian Authority crackdown on militant Palestinian
    groups behind attacks on Israelis in a 31-month-old uprising
    for statehood is a key part of the peace "road map", which the
    United States said it would release upon approval of Abbas'
    cabinet.

    Israel has said there could be no move towards an
    independent Palestinian state envisaged by the plan by 2005,
    unless Abbas demonstrated that real action was being taken
    against militants.

    For Washington, Abbas has emerged as the best candidate to
    lead the Palestinians into peacemaking that might ease
    anti-American anger, which the U.S.-led war in Iraq has
    stirred in the Arab world.

    But Arafat, the Palestinian icon Washington has sought to
    shelve, has retained significant authority over security and
    diplomatic matters in a five-week power struggle with Abbas.

    Arafat and Abbas put up a united front at the Palestinian
    Legislative Council, entering the chamber together at the
    start of deliberations on endorsing the first Palestinian
    prime minister and an anti-corruption cabinet dedicated to
    reform.

    Slamming Israel's "destructive military machine", Arafat
    in a sometimes fiery speech demanded "as the first step to
    make the 'road map' succeed" an Israeli military pullback to
    positions held before the Palestinian uprising began in
    September 2000.

    "Our patriotic message/mission is that we are committed
    to the fight of the occupation in all its forms and shapes and
    in organising our our interior situation - committed to the
    essential law that the legislative council that president
    Arafat had launched - and here, the government promises in
    keeping this law in all it's shapes and keeping all the
    leadership circles. so we don't see any disrespect of it or
    any disorder in the society that's because our way in applying
    is a realistic image of our capacity in the state, and our
    respect of the constitution and our government will not deal
    easily with everyone who tries to go over the law," said prime
    minister-designate Abbas.

    Hours before parliament convened, an Israeli helicopter
    fired two missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip town of Khan
    Younis, killing Nidal Salama, a top figure of the radical
    Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

    Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in al
    Khader, a West Bank village near Bethlehem early on Tuesday.

    A heavy exchange of fire between the soldiers and militants
    inside a house lasted for several hours. The army also used
    tear gas to disperse Palestinian crowds gathered nearby.

    Later on Tuesday, thousands of Palestinian mourners
    marched in the streets of Khan Younis in Gaza city, including
    masked gunmen, shooting in the air, chanting anti-Israel
    slogans and waving flags of various militant factions.

    At least 2,012 Palestinians and 734 Israelis have been
    killed since the revolt began.


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