VARIOUS: JOINT ISRAELI-JORDANIAN MISSION BRINGS RELIEF SUPPLIES TO BOSNIAN REFUGEES

Record ID: 399808

  • Title: VARIOUS: JOINT ISRAELI-JORDANIAN MISSION BRINGS RELIEF SUPPLIES TO BOSNIAN REFUGEES
  • Date: 25th July 1995
  • Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/HEBRON, WEST BANK/ (JULY 25, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) HEBRON, WEST BANK 1. SV SIGN "CAIRO AMMAN BANK" IN HEBRON 0.07 2. SV PALESTINIAN FLAG OVER TELLER 0.10 3. SV TELLER WITH MONEY IN TRAY AND PALESTINIANS DONATING CASH (2 SHOTS) 0.19 TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 4. SV AIRCRAFT SHOWING JOINT JOR
  • Embargoed: 9th August 1995 13:00
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  • Location: AMMAN, JORDAN/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/HEBRON, WEST BANK
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  • Country: West Bank West Bank ASIA Israel MIDDLE EAST Jordan
  • Reuters ID: LVA4GSBVYADD5QDMJ42KPCMCCNVT
  • Story Text: Israeli and Jordanian planes departed almost simultaneously from Tel Aviv and Amman on Tuesday (July 25) to bring relief supplies to Bosnian refugees.

    One plane took off from Tel Aviv and the other from Amman at almost the same time and were due to land within 10 minutes of each other at Split airport in Croatia.

    Most of the aid will be taken to the Bosnian city of Tuzla, to which more than 6,000 refugees fled after Serb forces seized the United Nations-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica two weeks ago.

    Each plane carried some 21 tonnes (tons) of medical equipment, tents, blankets, clothing, food and other humanitarian supplies.

    Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan and a medical team which might bring back wounded Bosnians for treatment in Amman flew with the Jordanian plane.

    The joint operation was conceived last week by Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    It was announced during a fund-raising programme for Bosnian Moslems on Jordanian television which raised pledges of 4.4 million dinars (6.3 million United States dollars) in cash plus goods worth 1.4 million United States dollars.

    In the West Bank town of Hebron, Palestinians gave money for the Bosnian relief operation on Tuesday.

    "By chance, we are celebrating today the first anniversary of the Washington Declaration', and I believe, that the slogan of us all, Arab and Jews, Jordanian and Israeli... is working together for the humanitarian causes in the world," said King Hussein, who saw off the Jordanian plane.

    Hussein and Rabin signed a draft declaration in Washington on July 25, 1994 laying the basis for the October 26 peace treaty formally ending 46 years of war beetween their two states.

    Jordan has 3,500 troops in the U.N. Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia, the third largest contingent after France and Britain. Most are stationed in Croatia.


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