ISRAEL: LEFT AND RIGHT WING DEMONSTRATORS SCUFFLE OUTSIDE A MILITARY PRISON WHERE ISRAELI MILITARY RESERVISTS WHO'VE REFUSED TO SERVE IN PALESTINIAN AREAS ARE JAILED

Record ID: 400136

  • Title: ISRAEL: LEFT AND RIGHT WING DEMONSTRATORS SCUFFLE OUTSIDE A MILITARY PRISON WHERE ISRAELI MILITARY RESERVISTS WHO'VE REFUSED TO SERVE IN PALESTINIAN AREAS ARE JAILED
  • Date: 2nd April 2002
  • Summary: (U5) ATLIT, ISRAEL (APRIL 2, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN/SLV: PROTESTORS WALKING TOWARDS ATLIT MILITARY PRISON (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. LV: ATLIT MILITARY PRISON 0.22 3. VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS WITH BANNERS (3 SHOTS) 0.36 4. SV: DEMONSTRATORS SHOUTING SLOGANS AGAINST THE ISRAELI OPERATION IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES 0.42
  • Embargoed: 17th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: ATLIT, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA4DXJ7IQ8XAQSJ3EI64KK7JFM
  • Story Text: Israeli left and right wing demonstrators have scuffled
    outside a military prison where Israeli military reservists,
    who refused to serve in the Palestinian territories, are
    jailed.


    Tuesdays (April 2) protest, on a hill overlooking a
    military prison in northern Israel began peacefully enough.

    Activists held banners and shouted their support for young
    men jailed by Israel for refusing to serve in the military.

    An increasing number of Israeli reservists who have
    refused to serve in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip
    (know locally as refuseniks) have been jailed in the military
    prison in Atlit, near the Israeli port city of Haifa.

    In February, a group of so-called refuseniks launched the
    most concerted opposition to military policy to come from the
    army's own ranks in more than 18-months of bloodshed. Their
    petition criticised military action in the West Bank and Gaza
    Strip.

    Thousands of military reservists have been sent to the
    West Bank and Gaza Strip to pursue Israeli Prime Minister
    Ariel Sharon's military operation to crush an 18-month-old
    Palestinian revolt against occupation and to punish
    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
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