VARIOUS: THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL'S KILLING OF PALESTINIAN MILITANTS

Record ID: 400440

  • Title: VARIOUS: THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL'S KILLING OF PALESTINIAN MILITANTS
  • Date: 4th August 2001
  • Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (AUGUST 3, 2001) (REUTERS (A)) 1. HAS DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING OUTSIDE MOSQUE; DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING; SLV DEMONSTRATORS RUNNING AWAY; SLV RIOT POLICE CHASING DEMONSTRATORS; SLV RIOT POLICE MARCHING DOWN ROAD (7 SHOTS) 0.52 ZARQA, 30 KM NORTH OF AMMAN (AUGUST 3, 2001) (REUTERS (A)) 2. HAS MUSLIMS AT PRAYERS 0.58 3. HA
  • Embargoed: 19th August 2001 13:00
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  • Location: AMMAN, ZARQA AND BAQAA, JORDAN/ SIDON AND BEIRUT, LEBANON
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  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVAADJZW936KOMRH07GCQQBKCFVH
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians have marched in Amman and
    two refugee camps near the Jordanian capital to protest
    against Israel's killing of Palestinian militants, witnesses
    said. Up to two thousand people also demonstrated over the
    killings in Sidon and Beirut, Lebanon.

    The opposition had called the march in central Amman
    to protest against an Israeli missile attack on an office of
    Hamas militant group in the West Bank on Tuesday that killed
    eight people, including two Hamas political leaders and two
    children.

    A Jordanian government official issued a statement on
    Thursday reminding people a ban on demonstrations in the
    capital was still in force and warning against staging
    protests.

    More than 800 protesters chanted "Jerusalem is Muslim and
    Arab" outside a mosque in Zarqa, 27 kilometres (17 miles)
    northeast of the Jordanian capital. Police armed with batons
    prevented them from marching down a street.

    In Beqaa camp, the largest refugee camp with over 120,000
    inhabitants, a few hundred Islamists staged a procession
    inside the camp's main commercial street carrying banners
    urging jihad, or holy struggle, and attacks against Jews.

    "Revenge...revenge...Qassam Brigades," scores of angry
    youths chanted, calling on the military wing of Hamas to
    launch attacks against Israelis.

    About 150 refugees took to the streets of Wehdat camp in a
    similar protest.

    Jordan banned demonstrations in Amman after
    pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with riot police earlier
    this year.

    The police used force to break up an Islamist-organised
    march outside a mosque in an Amman suburb last May in line
    with the ban. Scores of demonstrators and police were injured
    in the clashes.

    Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994,
    hosts 1.6 million Palestinian refugees. A majority of Jordan's
    five million population are of Palestinian origin.

    More demonstrations were held after Friday prayers in
    Beirut and Sidon to protest the killings by Israeli forces.

    The protesters were Palestinian and Lebanese supporters
    of Hamas and Islamic Jihad carrying Islamic banners and
    photos of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

    Some of the estimated 2,000 protesters carried rifles and
    others waved Palestinian flags as they marched noisily through
    central streets to denounce Tuesday's Israeli attack.

    They carried portraits of those killed, swearing to exact
    revenge for their deaths.


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