VARIOUS: REACTION TO SHARON VOTE DEFEAT OVER COALITION GOVERNMENT, ISRAELI FORCES DESTROY PALESTINIAN HOUSES IN RAFAH, LATEST.

Record ID: 328678

  • Title: VARIOUS: REACTION TO SHARON VOTE DEFEAT OVER COALITION GOVERNMENT, ISRAELI FORCES DESTROY PALESTINIAN HOUSES IN RAFAH, LATEST.
  • Date: 19th August 2004
  • Summary: (U3) JERUSALEM (AUGUST 19, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WOMAN STANDING OUTSIDE MARKET, LOOKING AT NEWSPAPER HEADLINES; NEWSPAPER HEADLINES READING "DEFEAT" ABOUT PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON LOSING THE VOTE IN HIS PARTY; PHOTOGRAPH OF SHARON; HEADLINES READ 'LIKUD CONVENTION SAYS NO TO SHARON'; WOMAN LOOKING AT HEADLINES 2. PEOPLE WALKING 3. (SOUNDBITE)(English) DAVID SCHINDLER, RESIDENT OF JERUSALEM, SAYING: "I think what happened at the Likud convention shows what most of the people think here. Sure they voted for (Israeli PM) Sharon but they voted for the whole Likud, since the last elections was not a personal one, was a party one although the people feel that Sharon is a good leader, that specific point of the (says hebrew word for disengagement) the separation, people don't feel that is the right thing to do because of past experiences with our neighbours." 4. (SOUNDBITE)(English) SARAH HEIN, RESIDENT OF JERUSALEM, SAYING: "At least that have to let him try, let him try and form his government so that he can do what he needs to do we don't have to resort to early elections." 1.10 5. MCU: WOMAN PLAYING VIOLIN BUSKING ON STREET 1.19 (U3) TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AUGUST 19, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. GV/PAN: MEMBERS OF THE LABOUR PARTY ARRIVING AT MEETING TO DISCUSS THE VOTE THAT DOES NOT ALLOW THEM TO ENTER COALITION 1.29 7. (SOUNDBITE)(Hebrew) DALIA ITIZK, LABOUR PARTY MEMBER, SAYING: "I hope that the Israeli public now understands the up coming elections, in my opinion there is no possibility of not having them. The issue is, who is for withdrawing from Gaza and who is against. It is entirely clear now that the Likud party decided to annex Gaza forever." 1.48 (U3) RAFAH, GAZA STRIP (AUGUST 19, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. GV/MV/LV: AFTERMATH OF ISRAELI RAID THAT DESTROYED 8 HOUSES; PALESTINIAN YOUTH CLIMBING ON DEBRIS OF HOUSES (7 SHOTS) 2.33 (U3) GAZA CITY (AUGUST 19, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. GV/MV/TV: ISLAMIC JIHAD RALLY IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE TAKING PLACE IN ISRAEL; VARIOUS OF MEMBERS DRESSED IN BLACK WALKING IN RALLY (5 SHOTS) 3.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM / TEL AVIV, ISRAEL / GAZA
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA7SXZT1RMQ9GOX83JXYIU97OKS
  • Story Text: Israeli PM loses vote in his party which will not
    allow him to to bring the dovish Labour party into his
    coalition, and imperil the disengagement plan.



    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's rebellious
    Likud party has dealt a severe setback to his plan to
    withdraw from occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from
    forging a coalition with the Labour opposition.

    Newspapers headlines on Thursday (August 19) called the
    vote a "defeat" implying that Sharon suffered a
    humiliation.

    Pedestrians in Jerusalem had mixed feelings about the
    vote on Thursday, but stood by Sharon as their leader.

    "At least that have to let him try, let him try and
    form his government so that he can do what he needs to do we don't
    have to resort to early elections.", said Sarah
    Hein, a Jerusalem, resident.

    58 percent of Likud's Central Committee members voted
    "no" to the question of whether the party should ally with
    dovish Labour, which favours trading occupied land for
    peace with Palestinians, and thus mired Sharon's plan in
    uncertainty.

    Sharon needs Labour in his cabinet to assure a
    parliamentary majority for putting withdrawals into motion
    next year.

    Labour's chief negotiator, Dalia Itizk said that Sharon
    should now hold general election as soon as possible.

    "I hope that the Israeli public now understands the up
    coming elections, in my opinion there is no possibility of
    not having them. The issue is, who is for withdrawing from
    Gaza and who is against. It is entirely clear now that the
    Likud party decided to annex Gaza forever," Itizk said
    Thursday.

    Meanwhile violence continued in Gaza on Thursday.

    Israeli tanks and bulldozers destroyed 8 houses in the Gaza
    strip.

    Residents of the destroyed houses in Rafah, looked
    through the debris to try and find there belongings.

    The Israeli army often raids Rafah in the southern Gaza
    Strip, saying that they are looking for tunnels used to
    smuggle in arms from Egypt.

    And in Gaza City thousand of members of the militant
    Islamic Jihad movement marched in support of the
    Palestinian prisoner hunger strike.

    About 2,200 Prisoner are on hunger strike in four jails
    throughout Israel since the begging of the week.




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