- Title: GAZA: ISRAELI MISSILES STRIKE GAZA CITY
- Date: 16th May 2004
- Summary: (W8) GAZA CITY (MAY 16, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SCENES) 1. WIDE OF GAZA CITY SKYLINE, FLASHES OF LIGHT 0.09 2. VARIOUS OF SITE OF FIRST ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE THAT HIT A BUILDING THAT HOUSED THE OFFICES OF THE POLITICAL BRANCH OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT'S FATAH GROUP 0.18 3. SLV PALESTINIANS RUNNING IN STREET CROWDED STREET 0.31 4. VARIOUS OF FIRE TRUCKS ARRIVING AT SITE 1.00 5. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS TRYING TO ENTER DAMAGED BULDING 1.17 6. VARIOUS OF INTERIOR OF DAMAGED BUILDING 1.25 7. VARIOUS OF CROWD RUNNING TOWARDS AMBULANCE 1.52 8. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS OUTSIDE DAMAGED BUILDING . INTERIOR 2.13 9. SLV MAN HOLDING REMAINS OF ROCKET 2.23 10. PAN UP OF DAMAGED BUILDING 2.32 (INTERIOR) 11. SLV WOUNDED OF BOY LAYING IN HOSPITAL 2.38 12. VARIOUS OF BOY'S FACE WITH DRIED BLOOD 2.57 13. SLV BOY BEING WHEELED ON TROLLEY 3.05 NIGHT SCENES) 14. VARIOUS OF SITE OF SECOND STRIKE THAT HIT THE OFFICE OF AL-RESALA, A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER THAT SUPPORTS THE PALESTINIAN MILITANT GROUP HAMAS 3.15 15. VARIOUS OF BUILDING DAMAGE, GLASS ON GROUND 3.27 16. VARIOUS OF DAMAGE TO CARS NEAR BUILDING 3.35 17. SLV AMBULANCES AT SITE 3.46 18. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY WORKERS HOLDING FLASHLIGHT, LOOKING UNDER CARS 4.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: GAZA CITY
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Israel hits Gaza targets after week of deadly
violence.
Israeli missiles struck Gaza City in the early
hours of Sunday (May 16), hitting two buildings that housed
the offices of the political branch of Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat's Fatah group and one of a
pro-Hamas newspaper, witnesses said.
Israeli missiles hit two buildings in Gaza City on
Sunday, destroying an office affiliated with Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat's Fatah group and another of a
pro-Hamas newspaper after a week of heavy Gaza violence,
witnesses said..
Nobody was inside the offices of either building at the
time of the airstrike. The first attack wounded several
bystanders on the ground below, including two children, but
there were no
immediate reports of casualties in the second strike.
Israel has stepped up Gaza Strip missile strikes after
13 soldiers died last week in heavy fighting in the area,
dealing the worst blow to the Middle East's mightiest army
in two years.
The Israeli army said the first office was used by
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group within Arafat's
Fatah faction, to plan attacks against Israeli targets.
Palestinian witnesses said it belonged to Fatah's political
faction, not militants.
The second strike hit the office of a pro-Hamas
militant group weekly newspaper, al-Rasala, a publication
that the Israeli army said was used to to pass messages of
the Hamas leadership.
On Saturday (May 15), Israeli helicopters targeted
buildings in Gaza belonging to the militant group Islamic
Jihad in apparent retaliation for last week's soldier
deaths.
The group, a main faction behind a campaign of suicide
bombings against Israelis, said missiles destroyed its
leader's office in Gaza but he was safely in hiding.
Israel has already killed two top Hamas leaders in the
past two months and has vowed to target all militant
leaders.
Also on Saturday, more than 120,000 Israelis rallied in
Tel Aviv to push Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to
pursue his Gaza pullout plan, mounting the Israeli peace
camp's biggest protest in more than three years of violence.
Sharon's plan, which calls for a unilateral evacuation of all
Jewis
h settlements in the Gaza Strip while retaining
large settlement blocs in the West Bank, was rejected by
hardliners in his right-wing Likud party in a referendum on
May 2.
Palestinians say retaining settlements denies then land
they want for a future state. Palestinian Prime Minister
Ahmed Qurie has said Israel should adapt a Gaza pullout to
a U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan, currently stalled by
violence.
Sharon has promised to press ahead with his
U.S.-endorsed "disengagement" plan. Aides say he may try to
win over hardliners by amending his original blueprint for
removal of all settlements in Gaza Strip and four of 120 in
the West Bank.
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