WEST BANK/GAZA: PRESIDENT ARAFAT CONDEMNS ONGOING ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATION IN SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP/ 10,000 PALESTINIANS MARCH IN FUNERALS OF 8 MEN KILLED BY ISRAEL FORCES

Record ID: 400480

  • Title: WEST BANK/GAZA: PRESIDENT ARAFAT CONDEMNS ONGOING ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATION IN SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP/ 10,000 PALESTINIANS MARCH IN FUNERALS OF 8 MEN KILLED BY ISRAEL FORCES
  • Date: 13th May 2004
  • Summary: (W5) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (MAY 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT SEATED IN HIS OFFICE WITH IRISH REPRESENTATIVES (3 SHOTS) 0.17 2. CLOSE OF PALESTINIAN FLAG SEEN THROUGH OTHER FLAGS 0.22 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT, SAYING: "They have moved their crimes from Zeitoun in the
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: RAFAH, GAZA / RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAEYSXNFCVP1B9CAESQMDL2K0QQ
  • Story Text: Arafat condemns ongoing operation in Gaza, 10,000
    Palestinians march in funerals

    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat condemned the
    ongoing bloodshed in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday
    (May 13) where some 10,000 Palestinians marched in funerals
    for Palestinians killed in earlier air strikes and ground
    raids.

    In the West bank city of Ramallah, Arafat who on
    Wednesday (May 12) called on Palestinian militants to hand
    over the body parts of six dead Israeli soldiers killed in
    an ambush in Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza, called the
    ongoing military operations "ugly crimes."
    "They have moved their crimes from Zeitoun in the Gaza
    city to Rafah, these are ugly crimes which have caused tens
    of martyrs and injuries and destruction," Arafat said.

    "Tell me, where else in this world would you witness this.

    I am calling upon the whole world to condemn these Israeli
    criminal acts against our Palestinian people."
    In the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip,
    Palestinians marched in the funerals of eight men killed by
    Israeli forces earlier in Thursday (May 13). Activists
    belonging to all Palestinian factions, including Islamic
    Jihad and Hamas, attended with masked gunmen shooting
    assault rifles in the air while others vowed revenge.

    Israel killed 12 Palestinians in southern Gaza on
    Thursday (May 13) after back-to-back ambushes claimed the
    lives of 11 of its soldiers in the worst blow to the army
    in two years.

    Witnesses said 11 Palestinians, four of them militants,
    were killed in helicopter missiles strikes in Rafah refugee
    camp, near the area where militants blew up an
    explosives-packed troop carrier on Wednesday (May 12). Five
    soldiers in the vehicle were killed.

    Israeli troops later shot dead a 19-year-old
    Palestinian during a push into Rafah, where 10 homes were
    demolished witnesses and medics said. Israel often raids
    the camp to uncover tunnels used to smuggle weapons from
    Egypt.


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