- Title: ISRAEL/ GAZA - MOSLEM FUNDAMENTALISTS MARCH THROUGH GAZA CITY
- Date: 17th October 1994
- Summary: GAZA . (OCTOBER 17, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP 1. HAS,GV HUNDREDS OF HAMAS SUPPORTERS MARCHING TOWARDS POLICE STATION 0.07 2. SV LINE OF PALESTINIAN RIOT POLICE 0.11 3. SLV MARCHERS HELD BACK BY RIOT POLICE AS THEY APPROACH POLICE BUILDING 0.14 4. SV/LV OF POLICE PUSHING BACK CROWDS (3 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 1st November 1994 12:00
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- Location: HAMAS/BORDERGAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP / EREZ CHECKPOINT, ISRAEL-GAZA STRIP BORDER
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA5EX68EG3PRY3T37P0SB3NC1ZU
- Story Text: More than 5,000 Moslem fundamentalists, some of them armed, marched through Gaza City on Monday (October 17) calling for the dismissal of Palestinian police chief Major-General Nasr Yousef.
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, which kidnapped and killed Israeli soldier Nachshon Waxman last week, organised the two-hour protest against the detention of hundreds of its supporters.
"Down with Nasr Yousef, Down with Nasr Yousef," shouted thousands of demonstrators metres (yards) from the police general's office inside Gaza central prison.
Some activists fired guns in the air, defying hundreds of Palestinian police guarding main roads and last week's announcement banning firearms in public.
Earlier on Monday, Israel reopened the crossing point closed during last week's kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. Some 17,000 Palestinians went to work in Israel.
PLO leader Yasser Arafat ordered the arrest of one of his police generals but released about 50 of the 300 Hamas supporters rounded up during last week's search for Waxman.
Students rioted near a Jewish settlement and for the second day running Israeli soldiers retreated rather than confront them.
Eyewitnesses said about 100 students threw stones at Palestinian and Israeli security forces after Palestinian police stopped them. The police later let them through.
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