JERUSALEM/ISRAEL: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON REACTS TO THE TEL AVIV BOMBING AND THE WORLD COURT RULING ON THE BARRIER

Record ID: 400504

  • Title: JERUSALEM/ISRAEL: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON REACTS TO THE TEL AVIV BOMBING AND THE WORLD COURT RULING ON THE BARRIER
  • Date: 11th July 2004
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (JULY 10, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON WALKING INTO CABINET MEETING 0.04 2. SV SHARON OPENING CABINET MEETING 0.08 3. MCU (Hebrew) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON SAYING: "I am opening the cabinet meeting. A little while ago an Israeli woman was murdered by a Palestinian terrorists and
  • Embargoed: 26th July 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM / TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA8QR7AQT78HACFNTTHOS0OV1Q9
  • Story Text: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacts to the
    Tel Aviv bombing and the World Court ruling on the barrier.



    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected on
    Sunday (July 11) the World Court's ruling on Israel's West
    Bank barrier as one-sided and politically motivated.

    In his first public comments on Friday's (July 9)
    non-binding opinion declaring the barrier illegal, Sharon
    said a Palestinian bombing in Tel Aviv that killed a woman
    on Sunday (July 11) was the first attack carried out "under
    the auspices of the ruling".

    "I want to make clear, the state of Israel absolutely
    rejects the ruling of the World Court (International Court
    of Justice) in The Hague," Sharon said. "It is a one-sided
    and politically motivated decision."
    Sharon said the decision by the U.N.'s top legal body
    "completely ignores the reason for building the barrier --
    which is the murderous Palestinian terrorism".

    Continued construction of the barrier, he said, "is the
    most reasonable measure to take against this criminal
    terrorism".

    The court said the network of razor wire-tipped fences
    and towering cement slabs -- condemned by the Palestinians
    as an "apartheid wall" built on occupied land they want for
    a state of their own -- should be taken down. Al-Aqsa Martyrs
    Briga
    des, part of Palestinian President
    Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for
    the bomb blast at a Tel Aviv bus stop, saying it came in
    response to Israel's killing of Palestinian militants and
    civilians.

    Hospital officials said one woman was killed in the
    explosion, the first bombing in Israel since March when two
    suicide bombers slipped out of the Gaza Strip and killed 10
    Israelis in the strategic port of Ashdod.



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