GAZA: PLO CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES FINDINGS OF ISRAELI MILITARY EXPLOSIVES AT BOMB SCENE IN WHICH 6 PEOPLE WERE KILLED

Record ID: 399764

  • Title: GAZA: PLO CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES FINDINGS OF ISRAELI MILITARY EXPLOSIVES AT BOMB SCENE IN WHICH 6 PEOPLE WERE KILLED
  • Date: 5th April 1995
  • Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (APRIL 5, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/ZOOM-IN/PAN PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (PLO) CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT'S CAR ARRIVING/ CROWDS CHEERING (3 SHOTS) 0.14 2. SV ARAFAT STEPS OUT OF CAR/KISSES CHILDREN /SHAKES HANDS WITH CHILDREN/ WAVES AT CROWDS (3 SHOTS) 0.33 3. SV/PAN ARAFAT WALKS THROUGH HALL/SITS DOWN WITH WIFE, SUHA
  • Embargoed: 20th April 1995 13:00
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  • Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA1V6B7GAI8KR7QWJAJCBV5UH0O
  • Story Text: Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat said on Wednesday (April 5) Israeli army explosives were found at the scene of Sunday's blast in self-ruled Gaza which killed six people.

    Two senior guerrillas of the militant Hamas group and four other people died in the explosion in an apartment building described by Palestinian police as a Hamas bomb factory.

    But Arafat, head of the Palestinian self-rule Authority, stopped short of directly accusing Israel of involvement in Sunday's explosion.

    "Nobody has the right to make stores for highly explosive materials," Arafat told reporters in his first public comments on the incident.

    In an apparent reference to Hamas, he said people should be working to improve the lives of the children of Gaza rather than building bombs in residential areas.

    Arafat added: "Some of these explosive materials had 'Tsahal' (the Hebrew acronym for Israel Defence Forces) written on them." He also said some of the explosives had reached Gaza through the southern Israeli port of Ashdod.

    Hamas blamed Israel and the Palestinian Authority for the blast.

    Palestinian police said the building was a bomb-making factory and the explosion occurred when one of the devices went off prematurely.

    Palestinian officials have suggested in the past that elements in Israel had entered into a secret alliance with Hamas in a common effort to wreck the Israel-PLO peace deal.

    Israel has said it had nothing to do with the Gaza explosion.


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