JERUSALEM/GAZA: HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS ARE LIVING IN UNITED NATIONS-PROVIDED TENTS IN THE GAZA STRIP FOLLOWING THE DEMOLITION OF HOMES BY THE ISRAELI ARMY

Record ID: 338291

  • Title: JERUSALEM/GAZA: HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS ARE LIVING IN UNITED NATIONS-PROVIDED TENTS IN THE GAZA STRIP FOLLOWING THE DEMOLITION OF HOMES BY THE ISRAELI ARMY
  • Date: 13th January 2002
  • Summary: (W4) RAFAH, SOUTHERN GAZA (JANUARY 13, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV ELDERLY PALESTINIAN MAN TYING TENT ROPE 0.08 2. CU OF MAN 0.17 3. SV OF PALESTINIANS SITTING IN TENTS 0.21 4. PAN/SV INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS WORKERS BEGINNING AID DISTRIBUTION (3 SHOTS) 0.49 5. SLV RED CROSS CONVOY AT REFUGEE CAMP STACKED WITH AID BOXES 0.56 6. SV AID WORKERS DISTRIBUTING FOOD FROM TRUCK 1.01 7. SV PEOPLE STANDING IN LINE 1.08 8. SLV/SV OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING BLANKETS AND BOXES TO TENTS/ CHILDREN CARRYING BOXES (4 SHOTS) 1.59 9. LV PALESTINIAN REFUGEES WAVING FROM BACK OF TRUCK 2.10 (U3) JERUSALEM (JANUARY 13,2001)(REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 10. SLV ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES ENTER MEETING 2.18 11. SV ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ENTER MEETING 2.27 12. LV CABINET MINISTERS AND SHARON SITTING AT MEETING 2.31 13. SV SHARON AND PERES SITTING TOGETHER 2.35 14. MCU SHARON PAN TO PERES PULL OUT SV CABINET MEETING 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th January 2002 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ RAFAH, GAZA
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  • Country: Gaza Jerusalem
  • Reuters ID: LVACJR297GNMUDBSKJKW9R629VMF
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians are living in United
    Nations-provided tents in the Gaza Strip following the
    demolition of homes by the Israeli army over the past few
    days. The destruction has been in retaliation for the most
    recent Hamas attack on a border post in southern Israel.

    Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and other cabinet
    ministers have criticised the demolition.



    The latest criticism of the hardline Israeli policy on
    Palestinian civilian targets has come from within the
    government itself, with ministers voicing their concerns on
    Israel radio over the weekend.

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have
    said 93 families, or about 600 people, were left homeless by
    the destruction on Thursday (January 10) of houses in Rafah
    refugee camp in southern Gaza.

    The army said it destroyed 21 homes abandoned by residents
    and used by gunmen to fire on its troops.

    But Palestinians trying to dig out their belongings from
    the rubble said they were paying the price for a cross-border
    raid on Wednesday (January 9) by the Islamic militant group
    Hamas that killed four soldiers in southern Israel.

    In Gaza, the ICRC said it would distribute supplies,
    including blankets, hygiene kits, cooking sets and gas lamps,
    to 93 homeless families in Rafah now living in U.N.-supplied
    tents.

    It said that, since the start in September 2000 of the
    Palestinian uprising, the ICRC's House Destruction Relief
    Programme had provided assistance to hundreds of Palestinian
    families whose houses were demolished by the Israeli army.

    Rafah is perhaps the most volatile frontline in the
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most of the nearly 80,000
    refugees who live there are unemployed, or barely make enough
    to support their families.

    In other retaliation for the Hamas raid, Israeli forces
    fired missiles at two vessels and a naval police post in Gaza
    on Saturday (January 12).

    Israel said it struck the base because of Palestinian
    naval police involvement in the January 9 cross-border attack.

    Hamas, which claimed responsibility for the raid and
    killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings last year, vowed
    to hit back after Israeli forces ripped up Gaza airport's
    runway on Friday (January 11) and bulldozed the Rafah homes.

    At a full weekly cabinet meeting, senior ministers in the
    Sharon administration were expected to voice their concerns at
    the escalation of the destruction of Palestinian civilian
    targets.


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