GAZA: PEOPLE MARCH IN GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT TO MOURN TWO ISRAELIS KILLED BY PALESTINIANS AND PROTEST OVER GAZA WITHDRAWAL

Record ID: 400911

  • Title: GAZA: PEOPLE MARCH IN GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT TO MOURN TWO ISRAELIS KILLED BY PALESTINIANS AND PROTEST OVER GAZA WITHDRAWAL
  • Date: 24th July 2005
  • Summary: (BN16) GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT BLOC, GAZA STRIP (JULY 24, 20050 (REUTERS) (NIGHT SCENES) 1. VARIOUS OF SETTLERS GATHERING IN KFAR DAROM SETTLEMENT TO MARCH ON KISSUFIM ROUTE WHERE TWO ISRAELIS WHERE KILLED BY PALESTINIAN GUNMEN 0.08 2. SCU SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) WOMAN SETTLER SAYING: "If you were there, instead of blocking us, if you were ther
  • Embargoed: 8th August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT BLOC, GAZA STRIP
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA4Y8O5H8RLXTQ9GL44QGIYGLIL
  • Story Text: Dozens march in Gush Katif settlement to mourn two
    killed Israelis.




    Dozens of young Jewish settlers staged a march on
    Sunday (July 24, 2005) to protest at the upcoming withdrawal from
    the Gaza Strip.

    They followed a route from the Kfar Darom settlement
    towards the Kissufim crossing where two Israelis where
    killed on Saturday night by Palestinian gunmen.

    The protesters were only allowed to proceed after
    lengthy discussions with the Israeli army who feared the
    marchers, who wanted to gather at the exact site where Dov
    and Rachel Kohl were gunned down, would have been put in
    danger.

    Initially the army refused to let the march go-ahead,
    and settlers tried talking their way through.

    "If you were there, instead of blocking us, if you were
    there yesterday this couple would not have been murdered.

    You should all do a soul searching," one woman told the
    soldiers.

    Eventually the protesters were allowed out of Kfar
    Darom settlement and marched towards Kissufim crossing, the
    main pathway between Israel and the Gaza Strip, under heavy
    security.

    Soldiers accompanied them. Tanks were also in position
    along the route.

    Demonstrators chanted slogans calling on Israeli Prime
    Minister Ariel Sharon to cancel his plan to 'disengage'
    from Palestinians by evacuating 21 settlements in Gaza
    Strip and four in the West Bank.


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