WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: RESIDENTS IN NABLUS SURVEY THE DESTRUCTION FOLLOWING ISRAELI ATTACKS/ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ATTEND INDEPENDENCE DAY CEREMONY
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WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: RESIDENTS IN NABLUS SURVEY THE DESTRUCTION FOLLOWING ISRAELI ATTACKS/ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ATTEND INDEPENDENCE DAY CEREMONY
- Title: WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: RESIDENTS IN NABLUS SURVEY THE DESTRUCTION FOLLOWING ISRAELI ATTACKS/ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ATTEND INDEPENDENCE DAY CEREMONY
- Date: 17th April 2002
- Summary: (U3) CASABA AREA, NABLUS, WEST BANK (APRIL 17, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN RESIDENTS SURVEYING DAMAGE 0.09 2. PAN DESTROYED BUILDING/ RUBBLE ON GROUND 0.16 3. LV/SLV RESIDENTS WALKING THROUGH RUBBLE (2 SHOTS) 0.27 4. PAN RUBBLE AND DESTRUCTION 0.32 5. PAN RESIDENT SURVEYING DAMAGE 0.40 6. SV WOMAN AND GIRL LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW 0.47 7. SLV DEBRIS AND RUBBLE ON GROUND/ MAN WALKING HAND-IN-HAND WITH TWO CHILDREN 0.58 8. LV WOMAN AND CHILDREN WALKING THROUGH RUBBLE AND DEBRIS 1.07 9. SLV TRUCK BEHIND HOSPITAL CONTAINING BODIES 1.15 10. CU BODIES INSIDE BAGS 1.24 11. SLV/SV INTERIOR HOSPITAL MORGUE/ BODIES (2 SHOTS) 1.37 12. MCU (English) HEAD OF THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL COMMITTEE IN NABLUS, ANAN QADRI, SAYING: "We confirmed 71 bodies here, where 13 of them are buried inside the old city in one of the gardens, it's temporarily burying and three - two women and one man - are buried here in the garden of this hospital." 1.55 13. SLV TEMPORARY GRAVES WITHIN HOSPITAL GROUNDS 1.59 14. CU TEMPORARY GRAVESTONE 2.02 (U3) JERUSALEM (APRIL 17, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 15. SLV EMPTY STREETS IN WEST JERUSALEM WITH ISRAELI FLAGS FLYING 2.07 16. SV ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ENTERING WITH PRESIDENT MOSHE KATZAV FOR CELEBRATIONS 2.24 17. SV MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY LOOKING ON 2.29 18. SV SHARON CLAPPING 2.37 19. LV OF DIGNITARIES SEATED FOR PHOTO OPPORTUNITY 2.40 20. SLV ISRAELI TANKS ROLLING DOWN STREET (2 SHOTS) 2.59 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NABLUS BANK AND JERUSALEM
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAC43VZ6FDCXQK4G396R61JCF2K
- Story Text: Medics in the West Bank town of Nablus have said that
during Israeli incursions at least 71 people were killed, many
of them civilians, not the militants that the offensive had
planned to flush out.
Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and members
of the government have attended an independence day ceremony,
marking 54 years since the creation of the state of Israel.
As the day began on Wednesday (April 17), in Nablus,
residents have been surveying the destruction following days
of Israeli attacks. Stumbling through the rubble and debris
families searched for food and water.
Blood stains have spattered the rubble in front of
scorched groceries and shops. The facades of houses have
gaping holes that residents say were caused by helicopter
rocket attacks. Bomb-blasted buildings have been reduced to
mounds of stone and dust.
Seventy one Palestinians were killed in Nablus during the
Israeli sweep from April 3-16, according to Nablus's Rafidia
Hospital records obtained by Reuters.
"We confirmed 71 bodies here," said Anan Qadri, head of
the emergency medical committee in Nablus. "Thirteen of them
are buried inside the old city in one of the gardens."
Qadri had no statistical breakdown for the number of
gunmen and civilians killed in Nablus, but said that many had
been civilians.
Thirty three bodies are being kept in a refrigerated dairy
truck in a parking lot behind the hospital because the morgue
is overflowing.
Nablus was viewed as a stronghold of the al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah
movement, which has claimed responsibility for some of the
recent suicide attacks inside Israeli.
The Israeli military curfew imposed on the more than
100,000 residents of Nablus has grisly implications in a city
where tradition calls for mass public burials and three-day
condolence visits. The dead are being lowered into shallow
temporary graves, covered in palm leaves in the Islamic
tradition.
In Israel itself the population has been marking the 54th
anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. Security
was tight around Jerusalem, with most of the streets in West
Jerusalem totally empty.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Moshe
Katzav attended a formal ceremony to mark the occasion watched
by the military making a display of unity under the prevailing
circumstances many have compared to those of a war.
Independence Day follows Memorial Day, when Israel pays
tribute to all its soldiers who have been killed since the
Israeli state's creation.
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