JORDAN: THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN BAQAA CAMP STAGE RALLY IN SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR ONGOING PALESTINIAN UPRISING AGAINST ISRAELI OCCUPATION

Record ID: 275328

  • Title: JORDAN: THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN BAQAA CAMP STAGE RALLY IN SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR ONGOING PALESTINIAN UPRISING AGAINST ISRAELI OCCUPATION
  • Date: 8th March 2002
  • Summary: (U5) BAQAA REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN (MARCH 8, 2002) (REUTERS (A) - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE VIEW RALLY AS THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN STREET 0.05 2. VARIOUS: MORE OF RALLY / PROTESTERS CHANTING AND CLAPPING THEIR HANDS IN THE AIR (5 SHOTS) 0.36 3. SCU: CHILD SITTING ON MAN'S SHOULDERS 0.39 4. CLOSE UP OF PROTESTER, CHANTING
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BAQAA REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
  • Country: Jordan
  • Reuters ID: LVA3V5D9WTL0A30QGTOHNRTMDMWK
  • Story Text: Thousands of Palestinian refugees in the Baqaa camp in
    Jordan have staged a rally in show of their support for the
    ongoing Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.


    In the Baqaa camp north of the capital Amman, some
    1,500 Palestinian refugees and Jordanian Islamists marched
    after Muslim Friday (March 8) prayers in support of
    Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

    Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994,
    is home to more than 1.6 million Palestinian refugees and most
    of its five million people have close ties to kin in the West
    Bank.

    Many of the protesters held anit-Israel banners and called
    for Arab leaders to reject any peace deal with the Israelis.

    "We can't accept any peace proposal which will offer
    salvation for Sharon," said Bdel Majeed Thunaibat, chief of
    the Muslim Brothers in Jordan.

    Jordan has welcomed U.S. President George W. Bush's
    decision to send Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni on a new
    mission, saying on Friday that it was a first step to ending
    Israeli-Palestinian violence.

    Foreign Minister Marwan al-Muasher said who flew to Cairo
    for a meeting of Arab foreign ministers, said the proposed
    Saudi peace plan would top the agenda of the ministers'
    weekend meeting.

    The Saudi plan offers Arab recognition of Israel in return
    for its withdrawal from land seized in the 1967 war. Arab
    leaders will discuss it at a Beirut summit on March 27 and 28.


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