JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: ISRAELI BULLDOZERS HAVE DEMOLISHED THREE PALESTINIAN HOUSES IN JERUSALEM

Record ID: 400847

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: ISRAELI BULLDOZERS HAVE DEMOLISHED THREE PALESTINIAN HOUSES IN JERUSALEM
  • Date: 6th February 2002
  • Summary: (W4) JERUSALEM (FEBRUARY 6, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV ISRAELI POLICEMAN STANDING AT SITE WHERE PALESTINIAN HOUSES ARE BEING DEMOLISHED 0.07 2. SV BULLDOZER DEMOLISHING HOUSE 0.18 3. SLV PALESTINIAN RESIDENTS OF AREA WATCHING AS BULLDOZERS DEMOLISH HOUSE 0.27 4. SLV ISRAELI POLICE PATROLLING AREA 0.31 5. SLV BULLDOZE
  • Embargoed: 21st February 2002 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAAJ4F98K9UOIPWY0392HSDY403
  • Story Text: Israeli bulldozers have demolished three Palestinian
    houses in Jeruslem as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was
    due in Washington for talks with U.S. President George W. Bush
    likely to focus on Iran and Iraq as well as on
    Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.



    Israeli bulldozers demolished three Palestinian houses
    under construction in east Jerusalem on Wednesday (February
    6). Israel says the houses were being constructed without
    government's authorisation.

    "This is the gift of Sharon to the American administration
    - that he is going to continue his settlement policy, his
    aggression, his military escalation, his policy of continuing
    assassinations and this a very risky situation because the
    American administration is receiving him in a couple of days
    and this should be harmful to the peace process" said
    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's adviser, Nabil Abu
    Rdainah.

    Sharon was on Wednesday heading to Washington for talks
    with the U.S. President likely to focus on their common
    nemeses Iran and Iraq as well as the Israeli-Palestinian
    conflict.

    The meeting on Thursday (February 7) will be Sharon's
    fourth White House visit in a year in office. In that time
    Bush has not even once met Arafat, in whom he has expressed
    disappointment over an alleged arms smuggling attempt.

    Sharon has said he will urge Bush to sever ties with
    Arafat, who has denied any involvement in the arms shipment
    which Israel seized in the Red Sea last month and said came
    from Iran.

    "What we would like to get in this visit is an end to
    terrorism and violence. Today, to our regret, Arafat has
    become irrelevant and I would even say that his only relevancy
    is his devotion to continue in the way of terror", said
    Israeli government official Avi Pazner.

    Israeli tanks have confined Arafat to his West Bank
    headquarters since December, demanding he turn over militants
    who killed an Israeli cabinet minister in October.


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