WEST BANK: ISRAEL LIFTS CURFEW ON RAMALLAH TO ALLOW DELIVERY OF UNITED NATIONS WELFARE AND RELIEF AGENCY SUPPLIES

Record ID: 400043

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAEL LIFTS CURFEW ON RAMALLAH TO ALLOW DELIVERY OF UNITED NATIONS WELFARE AND RELIEF AGENCY SUPPLIES
  • Date: 2nd April 2002
  • Summary: (W5) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (APRIL 2, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS UNRWA WORKERS CARRYING SACKS OF RICE AND SUGAR INTO A HOSPITAL (5 SHOTS) 0.31 2. SLV WORKERS ENTERING HOSPITAL WITH BOXES OF SUPPLIES ON TROLLEY 0.38 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED UNRWA WORKER SAYING: "We were requested by the Palestinian ministry of hea
  • Embargoed: 17th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAR62M8HIKVK2Y00E5E62FTXMJ
  • Story Text: The Israeli military has lifted the curfew for the
    first time since an Israeli all out assault on the West Bank
    city of Ramallah on Friday.

    Representatives of the United Nations welfare and Relief
    Agency (UNRWA) have rushed into the West Bank city to supply
    food and medical equipment.



    Israeli forces have lifted the curfew imposed on
    the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday (April 2).

    The Israeli army said the curfew was lifted to allow
    medical and food supplies to hospitals, and enable foreign
    residents to leave the besieged city.

    United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) workers
    carried rice, sugar and medical supplies into the hospital, as
    bulldozers started digging graves outside the hospital.

    "We have a lot of bodies inside the hospital, we are
    unable to receive any additional dead bodies so we have
    decided to bury bodies here at the hospital," Palestinian
    deputy health minister Munthur al Sharif said.

    Israel invaded Bethlehem and other West Bank towns on
    Tuesday as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered
    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a one-way ticket out of his
    besieged headquarters.

    Israel sent tanks to Ramallah on Friday in what it said was
    a bid to halt a wave of suicide attacks. Palestinians say the
    aim of Israel's widening military campaign is to block their
    goal of an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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