GAZA/ WEST BANK: ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOT PALESTINIAN AT RACHEL'S TOMB / VICTIM OF ISRAELI STRIKE AGAINST HAMAS BURIED

Record ID: 400695

  • Title: GAZA/ WEST BANK: ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOT PALESTINIAN AT RACHEL'S TOMB / VICTIM OF ISRAELI STRIKE AGAINST HAMAS BURIED
  • Date: 27th August 2003
  • Summary: (W4) BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (AUGUST 27, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS NEAR SHRINE OF RACHEL'S TOMB (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SMV PALESTINIAN SHOUTING SLOGANS THROUGH MICROPHONE 0.17 3. SLV PALESTINIAN YOUTHS HOLDING FLAGS AND BANNERS 0.22 4. WIDE OF SITE AND BULLZDOZER 0.29 5. SLV OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS AROUND AREA 0.34
  • Embargoed: 11th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: GAZA, BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA86OJASB55IY56F1JAOUP5Q2UV
  • Story Text: Israeli's shoot dead Palestinian in Bethlehem.


    Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian man Wednesday
    (August 27, 2003) during a confrontation outside the tomb of the
    biblical matriarch Rachel near Bethlehem, Israeli security
    sources and witnesses said.

    The sources said soldiers at a checkpoint opened fire
    on the man as he approached them wielding a knife. His
    condition was unclear.

    Israeli radio stations said the Palestinian man died at
    the scene of his injuries as he was being treated by army
    medics.

    A Palestinian medic said soldiers prevented his
    ambulance from reaching the scene of the shooting.

    Minutes before the incident Palestinian witnesses
    reported protests at the site, a frequent flashpoint of
    Israeli-Palestinian violence during the 34-month uprising
    for statehood, against Jewish visitors to the tomb.

    Witnesses at nearby Al Aida refugee camp confirmed that
    soldiers opened fire in the direction of the camp, hitting
    one Palestinian.

    Rachel's Tomb, just outside of Bethlehem, is the
    believed burial spot of the biblical matriarch, Rachel.

    Earlier mourners chanting anti-Israeli slogans marched
    through Gaza for the funeral of a bystander, killed in a
    botched Israeli military strike against Hamas gunmen.

    Israel had aimed at killing Hamas militants by firing a
    salvo of missiles on their car in Jabalya refugee camp on
    Tuesday (August 26). One elderly bystander was killed, 20
    people were wounded, including 6 children and the two Hamas
    gunmen walked away unharmed.

    The strike was the third in less than a week. It shows
    Israel's resolve to keep up attacks on Hamas after a
    suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus killed 21 people,
    including six children, dealing a heavy blow to a ceasefire
    key to a U.S.-led peace plan.



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