VARIOUS: ISRAELI TROOPS SURROUND HOSPITAL CHECKING DOCUMENTS OF DOCTORS WORKING THERE AS PART OF CLAMP DOWN IN PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

Record ID: 400036

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAELI TROOPS SURROUND HOSPITAL CHECKING DOCUMENTS OF DOCTORS WORKING THERE AS PART OF CLAMP DOWN IN PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
  • Date: 8th July 2002
  • Summary: (W4) JENIN, WEST BANK (JULY 6, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV ISRAELI TROOPS WALKING UP TO AMBULANCES; MV ISRAELI SOLDIER LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS (2 SHOTS) 0.22 2. MV HOSPITAL WORKERS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL; TANK; HOSPITAL WINDOW; ISRAELI SOLDIERS TALKING WITH HOSPITAL WORKERS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL (5 SHOTS) 0.57 3. MV HOSPITAL WORKERS INSIDE HOSPITAL ENTR
  • Embargoed: 23rd July 2002 13:00
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  • Location: JENIN AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ GAZA
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA46CALOHAV0D0QGGUF5911LUJY
  • Story Text: Israeli troops have surrounded a hospital in the
    northern West Bank city of Jenin, checking documents of
    doctors working there as part of the clampdown in Palestinian
    territory after back-to-back suicide bombings killed 26
    Israelis last month.

    In Gaza meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians have mourned
    the deaths of a woman and her two-year-old daughter who were
    killed by Israeli troops earlier on Sturday.

    Israel kept its military clampdown in the Palestinian
    territories in place on Saturday (July 6, 2002), as troops
    surrounded a hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin and
    brought doctors out to the street to check their documents.

    Elsewhere in the city, Palestinian boys defiantly hurled
    stones at Israeli armoured vehicles patrolling the streets of
    their town.

    Israeli soldiers are currently dug in inside seven of the
    eight major West Bank cities.

    In Gaza, meanwhile, Palestinians mourned the deaths of a
    woman and her two-year-old daughter who were killed early on
    Saturday.

    Palestinian hospital officials in south Gaza said Israeli
    soldiers killed the woman, Randa al-Hindi, and her
    two-year-old daughter Nur as they drove near the Jewish
    settlement of Netzarim from Khan Younis.

    An Israeli army spokeswoman said the army was checking the
    report in Khan Younis and that it did not know any incident
    near Netazrim or of any firing in the area.

    Thousands marched through the streets carrying the bodies
    in a funeral procession. Men chanted "Allah Akhbar" and vowed
    to avenge the deaths.

    In a separate incident, Palestinian officials said a
    Palestinian man in his 40s was shot dead while walking in Khan
    Younis late on Friday.

    Meanwhile tensions ran high inside Palestinian political
    circles on Saturday as members of Yasser Arafat's West Bank
    security network met to protest his dismissal of Jibril
    al-Rajoub, powerful head of the Palestinian Preventive Service
    in the West Bank and once mooted as a potential successor to
    the 73-year-old-Arafat.

    At one such meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah,
    within Rajoub's former jurisdiction, dozens of men gathered to
    voice their support of their ousted chief.

    A senior Palestinian official said Jibril Rajoub was
    served dismissal papers by the president on Thursday in the
    first signs of a high-level shake-up carried out under intense
    U.S. pressure for reform.

    Palestinian leaders are grappling with pressure for reform
    to placate popular discontent over alleged corruption and
    misrule and satisfy Israeli and U.S. conditions for renewed
    Middle East peace talks envisaging a Palestinian state.

    An official said Arafat had decided on Wednesday to shunt
    Rajoub to Jenin as governor of the northern West Bank city and
    appoint the incumbent there, Zuhair Manasra, as the new
    Preventive Security chief in the West Bank.

    Rajoub's reputation suffered after he slipped out of his
    West Bank headquarters hours before the Israeli army laid
    siege to it in April and ordered his men to surrender.


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