MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE KILLS ONE AT THE JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP,GAZA. / ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ADDRESSES CABINET ON RECENT ATTACKS IN THE SINAI.
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MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE KILLS ONE AT THE JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP,GAZA. / ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ADDRESSES CABINET ON RECENT ATTACKS IN THE SINAI.
- Title: MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE KILLS ONE AT THE JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP,GAZA. / ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ADDRESSES CABINET ON RECENT ATTACKS IN THE SINAI.
- Date: 9th October 2004
- Summary: (W3) JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP (OCTOBER 10, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: OF AREA WHICH WAS TARGETED BY MISSILE STRIKE THAT KILLED ONE, WOUNDED AT LEAST FOUR OTHERS. 0.06 2. CU: OF ONE OF BUILDINGS DAMAGED BY MISSILE STRIKE. 0.11 3. PULL OUT: WOMAN AND YOUTH STANDING ON FLOOR WHICH WAS BLOWN UP BY MISSILE. 0.20 4. WS: PEOPLE EXAMINING DAMAGE CAUSED BY MISSILE STRIKE. 0.26 5. MV: WOMAN TAKING HER BELONGINGS OUTSIDE DAMAGED HOUSE. 0.32 6. CU: INTERIOR OF DAMAGED HOUSE/ TILT UP: DESTROYED HOUSE ROOF. 0.41 7. CU: OF PRAM IN HOUSE. 0.45 8. WS: PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE BUILDINGS HIT BY MISSILE. 0.50 9. VARIOUS: VEHICLE CARRYING WOUNDED ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL/ WOUNDED BEING CARRIED INSIDE HOSPITAL. 1.04 10. CU: WOUNDED YOUTH BEING TREATED. 1.08 11. VARIOUS: WOUNDED MAN IN EMERGENCY ROOM. 1.17 (W3) JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP (OCTOBER 9, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)(NIGHT SHOTS) 12. TRACK/NIGHT: OF AFTERMATH OF TANK FIRE WHICH KILLED TWO PALESTINIANS/ WOUNDED MAN BEING EVACUATED BY MEDICS ON STRETCHER. 1.29 (W3) JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 10, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. TRACK: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ENTERING WEEKLY CABINET MEETING. 1.37 14. PULL IN/SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) SHARON SAYING: "The government will continue to hear updates this morning on the terrorist attacks in the Sinai. I re-emphasise that although the attacks occurred in Egypt, they were directed against citizens of the state of Israel. Against the backdrop of the fiery comments by the Palestinian leadership, this issue becomes even more acute. I want to thank the Home Front Command, and all of the volunteers from the first moments on Thursday (October 10) until those who are working until this moment to find more survivors. I want to thank President Mubarak and the Egyptian government again for the close cooperation." 2.39 15. MV: OF MEETING. 2.44 16. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) TOMMY LAPID, ISRAELI JUSTICE MINISTER, SAYING: "It's probably the Jihad, the Islamic terror, based on al Qaeda which has now reached into Egypt and it is an additional warning that we are living in a very dangerous world, and it should be a common issue of all civilised people to fight terror." 3.05 17. SCU: LAPID SPEAKING TO REPORTERS IN CORRIDOR. 3.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP/JERUSALEM
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Missile strike kills one in Gaza/Ariel Sharon
addresses his cabinet on the recent attacks in the Sinai.
An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a house in
Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp on Sunday (October 10), killing
a Palestinian man and wounding several others, witnesses said.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the
incident as the army pressed on with a massive 11-day
offensive that has cost 89 Palestinian lives. Israel says
the offensive in the northern Gaza Strip is aimed at
stopping Palestinian militants from firing rockets into Israel.
Witnesses said a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft
destroyed a house in the heart of Jabalya, killing a
Palestinian man who worked in the camp as a teacher and
wounding three women.
Hours earlier, two Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza by
Israeli tank fire, medics and witnesses said.
Witnesses said two Palestinians inside a building were
killed by Israeli tank fire, but the Israeli army said
militants had fired an anti-tank missile at troops, and
that the missile had hit a house, killing two civilians.
Witnesses said an Israeli tank had fired directly at
the house, which belonged to the family of a dead Hamas
militant. They said four more Palestinians were wounded.
Earlier on Saturday (October 9), soldiers killed five
militants in northern Gaza, including a local Hamas
commander. The offensive, one of Israel's biggest and
bloodiest in four years of conflict, has claimed the lives
of 88 Palestinians and three Israelis.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the raid be
intensified after militants killed two children in a rocket
strike on an Israeli border town. Violence in Gaza has
increased ahead of his plan to withdraw Israelis from the
strip by the end of 2005.
Meanwhile Sharon thanked Egypt's President Hosni
Mubarak for Egypt's cooperation with Israel after bombings
at Egyptian resorts killed at least 33 people.
Sharon added that the attacks in Egypt, which claimed
the lives of at least six Israelis, proved that they were
directed at Israeli citizens.
"I re-emphasise that although the attacks occurred in
Egypt, they were directed against citizens of the state of
Israel," he told his weekly cabinet on Sunday (October 10).
"I want to thank President Mubarak and the Egyptian
government again for the close cooperation," he added.
Egyptian police have rounded up some 15 Sinai Bedouin
on suspicion they helped smuggle in the explosives used to
kill at least 33 people at Red Sea resorts frequented by
Israelis, security sources said on Sunday.
Investigators doubt the explosives reached the Taba
area along main roads or through the Israeli-Egyptian
border post at Taba because of the tight security, they
said. The Bedouin nomads know the unpatrolled desert tracks
of the Sinai well.
At the main bombing site, the Hilton hotel in the
resort of Taba on the Israeli border, search and rescue
teams said they expected to complete their task on Sunday
without finding any more bodies under the concrete blown
off the hotel's facade when one or two vehicle bombs
exploded there on Thursday evening (October 7).
Another Israeli official, Gideon Bar-on, said the death
toll from the bombings at Taba and at a resort further
south on the coast of the Sinai peninsula stood at 33,
unchanged from Saturday.
Israeli officials say they have identified six of the
victims as Israelis and six as Egyptians. The Egyptian
Interior Ministry said on Saturday (October 10) there were
34 bodies -- nine Egyptians, five Israelis and 20 unidentified.
The Egyptian presidential spokesman said on Saturday
that Egypt was keeping an open mind on who carried out the
attack, the most serious attack on tourists in Egypt since 1997.
Israel said on Sunday that the attacks in the Egyptian
Sinai peninsula were most likely the work of al Qaeda, who
it said aimed to collapse a hotel packed with Israelis and
kill hundreds.
"It's probably the Jihad, the Islamic terror, based on
al Qaeda which has now reached into Egypt and it is an
additional warning that we are living in a very dangerous
world, and it should be a common issue of all civilised
people to fight terror," said Justice Minister Tommy Lapid.
The Egyptian security sources said it was too early to
say whether the bombers were Egyptians or foreigners and
for the moment they are concentrating their efforts on
identifying the vehicles and the source of the explosives.
The international news channel CNN quoting Egyptian
officials said on Sunday that bombers could have reached
the Egyptian coast by speedboat from nearby Jordan or Saudi
Arabia. An Interior Ministry official said he had no
information about that theory.
The Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar said on
Sunday that police were questioning about 30 people,
including Bedouin trackers. Smuggling is big business in
Sinai, mainly in drugs, weapons, illegal immigrants and sex workers.
The Taba bombing was followed by blasts at two
backpacker beaches further south on the Sinai Peninsula,
crowded with Israelis vacationing there during a week-long
Jewish holiday. A previously unknown pro-al Qaeda Islamist group
called Islamic Tawhid Brigades had claimed responsibility for the
blasts. The claim, along with one from another unknown
group calling itself the World Islamist Group, could not be
verified.
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