SYRIA: PALESTINIANS IN YARMOUK REFUGEE CAMP CONDEMN ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER AL-RANTISSI

Record ID: 275210

  • Title: SYRIA: PALESTINIANS IN YARMOUK REFUGEE CAMP CONDEMN ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER AL-RANTISSI
  • Date: 18th April 2004
  • Summary: (U6)YARMOUK REFUGEE CAMP, SYRIA (APRIL 18, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF PROTESTERS CARRYING FLAGS 0.06 2. VARIOUS PROTESTERS CARRYING HOLY QUR'AN AND SHOUTING SLOGANS 0.09 3. WIDE OF BACK OF CROWD CHANTING SLOGANS (Arabic): "Intifadah continues!" 0.13 4. WIDE OF CHANTING CROWD 0.18 5. WIDE 0F MAN CHANTING SLOGANS TO CROWD 0.
  • Embargoed: 3rd May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: YARMOUK REFUGEE CAMP, SYRIA
  • Country: Syria
  • Reuters ID: LVA6M727DGPT3PXJWBTJLAADCSJV
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians from Yarmouk refugee camp
    march in streets to condemn the assassination of Hamas
    leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi.



    The assassination of top Hamas leader Abdel Aziz
    al-Rantissi prompted a massive outburst of rage and grief
    in Palestinian camps in Arab countries on Sunday (April
    18), one of which was Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in
    Syria, near the capital Damascus.

    A day after Rantissi's death, hundreds of demonstrators
    from the camp rallied in the camp streets following the
    Islamic noon prayers, to condemn Israel's assassination of
    Rantissi.

    "Retaliation, in God's will, will be shattering and
    strong, and will be unavoidable. The Qassam Brigade have
    promised that their retaliation will be strong and
    shattering and destructive to this entity until they
    (Israelis) start repenting for their crime," said Hamas
    Popular Front representative Nawwaf Tikrini.

    Carrying flags and banners to express their anger,
    protesters also burned the Israeli flag and chanted
    "Intifadah continues!"
    An Israeli helicopter missile strike killed Rantissi
    with two of his bodyguards in an attack on his car in Gaza
    on Saturday night (April 17).

    Rantissi, an Egyptian-trained paediatrician, was
    outspoken in his support of violence. Israel branded him "a
    mastermind of terrorism". He died when two missiles slammed
    into his car hours after a suicide bomber killed an Israeli
    soldier at northern Gaza's Erez crossing.


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