VARIOUS: PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS MOURN KING HUSSEIN'S DEATH.

Record ID: 399995

  • Title: VARIOUS: PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS MOURN KING HUSSEIN'S DEATH.
  • Date: 9th February 1999
  • Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (FEBUARY 8) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: WIDE OF THE ASHARWA CENTER 0.05 2. GV: PALESTINIAN FLAGS AT HALF MAST 0.12 3. SV: SHOP DISPLAYING POSTERS OF KING HUSSEIN AND ARAFAT 0.21 4. CU: CLOSE-UP OF THE POSTER OF KING HUSSEIN (2 SHOTS) 0.32 5. CU/TRACK OUT: NEWSPAPER HEADLINES IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC 0.41 6.
  • Embargoed: 24th February 1999 12:00
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  • Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP/ NABLUS AND BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAJMDJ4TU7C2UGZ8V0U98PGCPK
  • Story Text: Both Palestinians and Israelis on Monday mourned King
    Hussein's death as a great loss to the cause of peace.

    The Palestinian Authority declared three days of mourning
    and the Jewish State said it would lower flags to half-mast
    during the King's funeral.

    The Palestinian Authority declared on Monday (February
    8) a three-day mourning period while Israel ordered flags
    lowered to half-mast for the funeral of King Hussein and
    called its peace with Jordan a monument to his memory.

    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli President
    Ezer Weizman both led delegations to the king's funeral.

    King Hussein, Israel's closest Arab friend, forged a peace
    treaty with prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 that ended a
    formal state of war dating back to Israel's creation in 1948.

    King Hussein gave an emotional eulogy at Rabin's funeral
    in 1995.Two years later he paid condolence calls at the homes
    of families of seven Israeli schoolgirls shot dead by a
    Jordanian soldier at their border.

    On Monday, Palestinians in Gaza Strip and the West Bank
    put up black flags to mark the king's death.

    Palestinian Television broadcast readings from the Koran
    to mourn the monarch, who in 1970 spearheaded a bloody
    crackdown in his kingdom on guerrillas of the Palestine
    Liberation
    Organisation (PLO).

    King Hussein ruled the West Bank, including Arab East
    Jerusalem, until the areas were captured by Israel in the 1967
    Middle East war.


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