JERUSALEM: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON SAYS THAT JERUSALEM WILL ALWAYS BE ISRAEL'S UNDIVIDED CAPITAL

Record ID: 400479

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON SAYS THAT JERUSALEM WILL ALWAYS BE ISRAEL'S UNDIVIDED CAPITAL
  • Date: 21st December 2001
  • Summary: (U6) JERUSALEM (DECEMBER 19, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PEOPLE GATHERED AT NEW BUS STATION IN CITY CENTRE 0.07 2. SCU ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON AT A CEREMONY MARKING OPENING OF A NEW BUS STATION IN THE CITY; MV GUESTS AT CEREMONY; MV SHARON SITTING WITH GUESTS; MV ISRAELI SECURITY AT CEREMONY; MV SHARON WALKING TOWARDS PODIUM; SCU GUESTS SITT
  • Embargoed: 5th January 2002 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA991XULQ3YBBY19UGH9LYFHBPR
  • Story Text: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said at a
    ceremony in Jerusalem that Jerusalem will be Israel's united
    and undivided capital forever.

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Wednesday
    (December 19) said that Jerusalem will be Israel's united and
    undivided capital forever.

    "(Jerusalem) is the capital of Jewish people since over
    3,000 years, the united and undivded capital and the
    Temple Mount, the holiest site for the Jewish people (it
    is) the capital of Israel forever and ever", Sharon said at a
    ceremony opening the new central bus station in Jerusalem.

    Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle
    East war and annexed it in a move not recognised
    internationally. It regards all of Jerusalem as its capital,
    but Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a
    future state.

    At least 784 Palestinians and 233 Israelis have been
    killed since a Palestinian uprising against occupation erupted
    in September 2000 after peace talks stalled.


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