LEBANON: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES LIVING IN CAMPS NEAR BEIRUT REACT ANGRILY TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE SUMMIT PROCEEDING WITHOUT PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT

Record ID: 275182

  • Title: LEBANON: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES LIVING IN CAMPS NEAR BEIRUT REACT ANGRILY TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE SUMMIT PROCEEDING WITHOUT PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT
  • Date: 27th March 2002
  • Summary: (W5) SABRA-SHATILA CAMP, BEIRUT, LEBANON (MARCH 27, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. MV/SV: HASANEN FAMILY WATCHING SUMMIT ON TV (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SV: KARIMAH HASANEN (FROM HAIFA) AND HER FAMILY NEXT TO PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT'S PHOTOGRAPH 0.16 3. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) KARIMAH HASANEN SAYING "Arafat's absence is shame, shame, shame to the
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: SABRA-SHATILA / AIN EL HILWEH / RASHIDIYEH CAMP, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA5QJVEWZUWX3C6YO8BCMWI1JZA
  • Story Text: Palestinian refugees living in camps near the Lebanese
    capital have reacted angrily to the Mideast peace summit
    proceeding without Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.


    Hundreds of Palestinian refugees in south Lebanon
    demonstrated in their camps on Wednesday (March 27) over the
    absence of President Yasser Arafat and other Arab heads of
    states (March 27, 2002) at the Arab summit in Beirut.

    The Hasanen family watched the summit on television in
    their home at the Sabra-Shatila Camp near Beirut. Karimah
    Hasanen sits with the photograph of Arafat above her on the
    wall but she is unhappy with the Arab peace summit continuing
    without him.

    "Arafat's absence is shame, shame, shame to the Arab
    leaders," she said. Elsewhere in the camp an old woman holds
    her own protest, "They are crooks from the days of prophet
    Mohammed and Jesus Christ." she says.

    And her dismay is echoed in other camps across the country.

    The Palestinian Authority said President Yasser Arafat
    would stay "with his people to face the Israeli aggression"
    and avoid giving the Israeli government an opportunity to
    prevent him from returning to the Palestinian territories.

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had already
    effectively ruled out Arafat's participation despite heavy
    U.S. and other international pressure, saying that the
    "conditions are not ripe" for him to go Beirut.

    Apart from Arafat, other absentees include Egyptian
    President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah of Jordan and mavericks
    Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq, along
    with a clutch of Gulf emirs.


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