VARIOUS: ISRAEL KILLS 10 PALESTINIANS IN MISSILE STRIKES AFTER AMBUSHES CLAIM THE LIVES OF 11 ISRAELI SOLDIERS.

Record ID: 342283

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAEL KILLS 10 PALESTINIANS IN MISSILE STRIKES AFTER AMBUSHES CLAIM THE LIVES OF 11 ISRAELI SOLDIERS.
  • Date: 13th May 2004
  • Summary: (W3) JERUSALEM (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GV/CU: NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SHOWING PHOTOGRAPHS OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED IN RAFAH ON WEDNESDAY (MAY 12) (3 SHOTS) 0.29 (W3)RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, SOUTHERN GAZA (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 2. LV/TV: ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLES IN RAFAH, AUDIO OF GUNFIRE (2 SHOTS) 0.54 3. GV/PAN: AMBULANCE DRIVING THROUGH STREETS 0.57 4. GV: WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 1.08 5. LV: HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD AS PART OF ONGOING MILITARY OPERATIONS 1.12 6. GV: MORGUE WITH BODIES OF SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED IN MISSILE STRIKE 1.26 (W3)KEREM SHALOM CHECKPOINT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 7. GV/PAN: ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF WALKING TOWARDS MEDIA 1.35 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF, MOSHE YAALON, SAYING: "Unfortunately we are witnessing those devastating attacks encouraged by Palestinian Authority elements, by elements in Tehran, Damascus and Lebanon. We have to deal with all those elements in order to eliminate the terror capabilities in our region." 2.07 9. CU: ISRAELI FLAG FLYING 2.12 10. GV: MILITARY JEEP ENTERING AREA 2.15 11. GV/LV/PAN: EGYPTIANS ACROSS BORDER HELPING TO SEARCH FOR BODY PARTS; TROOPS AT CHECKPOINT; EGYPTIAN ON CAMEL HELPING TO SEARCH FOR BODY PARTS, PAN TO WIDE OF CHECKPOINT (3 SHOTS) 2.45 (W3)RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 12. GV: PALESTINIAN FLAG ON GOVERNMENT BUILDING 2.52 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALESTINIAN SENIOR NEGOTIATOR SAEB EREKAT, SAYING: "We have said we would exert every possible effort despite that our body parts have been scattered due to the assassinations, the shellings, the tanks, the missiles. And we have returned these bodies to Israel. But the question to the Israeli society is - what are their soldiers doing in the streets of Gaza and the streets of Rafah and so on? This is the question that they have to answer." 3.14 (W3)ZEITOUN NEIGHBOURHOOD, GAZA STRIP (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 14. LV/GV/PAN: VARIOUS OF DAMAGE, PEOPLE INSPECTING DAMAGE (4 SHOTS) 3.42 (W3)RAFAH, GAZA (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 15. GV/GV/PAN: AMBULANCE ARRIVING, MAN BEING PULLED OUT OF BACK OF AMBULANCE; ANOTHER MAN BEING PULLED OUT OF SIDE DOOR AND PUT ON STRETCHER;. THIRD MAN BEING CARRIED OUT OF AMBULANCE (2 SHOTS) 4.16 16. GV/PAN: UNITED NATIONS AMBULANCE ARRIVING, MORE WOUNDED BEING CARRIED INTO HOSPITAL 4.43 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM; RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/RAFAH AND ZEITOUN, GAZA/KEREM SHALOM CHECKPOINT
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAEKB6U5VQ2Z5V16EE5S5UC5LWA
  • Story Text: Israel has killed 10 Palestinians in missile strikes
    on southern Gaza after ambushes claimed the lives of 11
    Israeli soldiers..


    Israel killed 10 Palestinians in missile strikes in
    southern Gaza on Thursday (May 13) after back-to-back
    ambushes claimed the lives of 11 soldiers in the worst blow
    to the Middle East's mightiest army in two years.

    The new spiral of violence intensified debate between
    proponents and opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
    Sharon's plan to evacuate settlers from Gaza, now stalled
    by rightist hardliners in his own Likud party.

    Witnesses said two missiles hit a crowd in Rafah
    refugee camp, killing seven people near the spot where
    militants blew up an explosives-packed troop carrier on
    Wednesday (May 12). Five soldiers in the vehicle were
    killed.

    An Israeli military source said the missiles were fired
    at militants trying to plant bombs. In a second missile
    strike in the camp hours later, three Palestinians were
    killed, medics said. The army had no immediate comment.

    On Tuesday (May 11), six Israeli soldiers died when
    their armoured vehicle hit a landmine during a raid in Gaza
    City's Zeitoun neighbourhood, a militant stronghold.

    Israeli forces pulled out of Zeitoun early on Thursday
    (May 13) in what Palestinian sources said was an
    Egyptian-mediated deal under which militants returned the
    remains of the servicemen.

    Together the attacks marked the worst blow to the
    Israeli army since April 2002, when 13 soldiers were killed
    during an assault on a refugee camp in the West Bank town
    of Jenin, a militant stronghold.

    "Unfortunately we are witnessing those devastating
    attacks encouraged by Palestinian Authority elements, by
    elements in Tehran, Damascus and Lebanon. We have to deal
    with all those elements in order to eliminate the terror
    capabilities in our region," said the Israeli army's Chief
    of Staff Moshe Yaalon, said.

    Palestinian security officials later handed over the
    soldiers' remains to Israel at a checkpoint north of Gaza,
    saying they were obtained under order from Palestinian
    President Yasser Arafat after militants gave them to Egyptian
    mediators.

    "We have said we would exert every possible effort
    despite that our body parts have been scattered due to the
    assassinations, the shellings, the tanks, the missiles. And
    we have returned these bodies to Israel. But the question
    to the Israeli society is - what are their soldiers doing
    in the streets of Gaza and the streets of Rafah and so on?
    This is the question that they have to answer," said senior
    Palestinan negotiator Saeb Erekat.

    Israel had said troops would stay put until the bodies
    were recovered for a proper burial according to Jewish
    tradition and it would do no deals with "terrorists".

    The army said it raided Zeitoun to destroy weapons
    workshops used by militants. Palestinian medics said 16
    people, including militants and bystanders, were killed and
    185 were wounded during the two-day siege.


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