ISRAEL: ISRAELI ARABS PROTEST AGAINST ISRAELI ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN

Record ID: 400225

  • Title: ISRAEL: ISRAELI ARABS PROTEST AGAINST ISRAELI ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN
  • Date: 23rd March 2004
  • Summary: NAZARETH, ISRAEL (MARCH 23, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF ISRAELI ARAB DEMONSTRATION IN NAZARETH, CARRYING A MOCK COFFIN OF SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN 0.06 2. HAMAS FLAGS AND THE PALESTINIAN FLAGS BEING CARRIED 0.14 3. PEOPLE CARRYING A WHEELCHAIR AS A SYMBOL OF SHEIKH YASSIN 0.22 4. WIDE VIEW OF FUNERAL WITH YASSIN'S PHOTO AND A MOCK COFFIN
  • Embargoed: 7th April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: NAZARETH, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAVEFGXCQ7AOU2M3J7T3O9F61A
  • Story Text: Israeli Arabs protest the killing of Sheikh Ahmed
    Yassin.


    Shouting "revenge, revenge" several thousand Israeli
    Arabs took to the streets of Nazareth on Tuesday (March 23) to mourn
    assassinated Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin.

    The protest, organised by Israeli Arab movements ranging from Islamic
    fundamentalists to supporters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah
    faction, was part of a day of mourning in Arab towns and villages in the
    Jewish state.

    Israel killed Yassin in a helicopter missile strike in Gaza on Monday
    (March 22), provoking rage across the Arab world and vows of revenge from
    Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings.

    Police kept their distance from the demonstration in Nazareth, the
    largest Arab town in Israel. Protesters waved black and Islamic flags and held
    aloft posters of Yassin and a wheelchair in tribute to the paralysed
    cleric.

    Arabs make up about 20 percent of the population in Israel and have
    long complained of discrimination in the allocation of government funds to
    their towns and schools and permits for building homes on state-owned
    land.

    Since police killed 13 Israeli Arabs during stone-throwing protests at
    the start of the Palestinian uprising, the community has largely remained on
    the sidelines of the revolt.


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