- Title: JORDAN: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF NATANYA SUICIDE BOMBER.
- Date: 19th May 2001
- Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (MAY 18, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN: PAN ACROSS ASSEMBLED DEMONSTRATORS 0.15 2. GV: VARIOUS OF HOODED DEMONSTRATORS/ DEMONSTRATORS IN MILITARY FATIGUES 0.22 2. GV/MV: EFFIGIES OF ISRAELI PRIME MINSTER ARIEL SHARON HOISTED OVER THE HEADS OF DEMONSTRATORS (3 SHOTS) 0.36 4. GV: VARIOUS OF CROWDS 0.42 5.
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- Location: AMMAN, JORDAN
- Country: Jordan
- Reuters ID: LVA4L1SB48JCZKQLGP2AHPHKWV2V
- Story Text: Thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Jordan
took to the streets to support the latest developments in the
Intifada with Israel.
An estimated 15,000 turned out on Friday to hail the
suicide bomber who killed six as well as himself in an attack
on a shopping mall in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya.
Jordan has more Palestinian refugees living within its
borders than Jordanians themselves, on Friday (May 18) some
15,000 of these refugees took to the streets in support of the
suicide bomber Palestinian officials named as 21-year-old
Mahmoud Ahmed Marmash, a Hamas activist from the West Bank
town of Tulkarm, 16 kilometres (10 miles) east of Netanya.
Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets followed a meeting
between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and senior cabinet
ministers to decide on an Israeli response to the suicide
bombing that killed seven, including the bomber, and injured
110. Four of those killed were women.
Netanya, which is near Tel Aviv, has been targeted in
recent months by Islamic militants who have vowed to carry out
bombings in Israel in solidarity with Palestinians waging an
eight-month-old uprising for independence.
Seventeen people were killed and 200 injured in a suicide
bombing and retaliatory Israeli air strikes that followed on
Friday in one of the bloodiest days since the Palestinian
uprising erupted nearly eight months ago.
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