WEST BANK: AN IRAQI DELEGATION HAS HANDED OUT 25,000 U.S. DOLLARS TO PALESTINIAN FAMILIES WHO LOST THEIR HOUSES DURING ISRAEL'S MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN THE JENIN REFUGEE CAMP

Record ID: 566174

  • Title: WEST BANK: AN IRAQI DELEGATION HAS HANDED OUT 25,000 U.S. DOLLARS TO PALESTINIAN FAMILIES WHO LOST THEIR HOUSES DURING ISRAEL'S MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN THE JENIN REFUGEE CAMP
  • Date: 20th August 2002
  • Summary: JENIN, WEST BANK (AUGUST 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV STREET OF JENIN, MAN UNFOLDING POSTER WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN PORTRAIT (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. SV OF SADDAM PORTRAIT 0.23 3. PAN OF ROOM WHERE MONEY BEING GIVEN OUT TO FAMILIES WHOSE HOUSES WERE DESTROYED BY ISRAELI ARMY 0.39 4. SV OLD PALESTINIAN WOMAN WALKING INTO ROOM, RECEIVING MONEY 0.52 5. CU OF SADDAM PORTRAIT 0.58 6. CU OF DOCUMENTS 1.03 7. SV MAN COMING UP TO TABLE, GETTING MONEY, PUTTING HIS SIGNATURE IN A BOOK, CHANTING"LONG LIVE SADDAM" (2 SHOTS) 1.33 8. SLV/SV OF ROOM, PEOPLE SITTING ON BENCHES, WAITING FOR THEIR TERM TO RECEIVE MONEY/MAN RECEIVING MONEY (2 SHOTS) 1.52 9. SV MEN SHAKING HANDS 1.58 10. SV OLD PALESTINIAN WOMAN ULULATING 2.06 11. PAN OF ROOM, PEOPLE SITTING ON BENCHES, WAITING FOR THEIR TERM TO RECEIVE MONEY 2.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2002 13:00
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  • Location: JENIN, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA2Q8T8BJZWH2ZPL1DIT48HU2BN
  • Story Text: An Iraqi delegation has handed out 25,000 United
    States dollars to Palestinian families who lost their houses
    during Israel's military offensive in the Jenin refugee camp
    in April.



    Thirty three Palestinian families whose houses were
    destroyed in April during a ten-day siege of a refugee camp in
    the West Bank town of Jenin by Israeli soldiers were granted
    25.000 United States dollars each by the Iraqi authorities and
    picked up their cheques on Tuesday (August 20).

    "Long Live Saddam" chanted an elderly man holding an
    envelope with money.

    The siege of a refugee camp in Jenin claimed the lives of
    23 Israeli soldiers and about 50 Palestinians.

    About 100 houses were destroyed.

    It was not the first distribution of money from Iraqi
    President Saddam Hussein's regime to the Palestinians.

    Last month, also in Jenin, money was distributed to
    families whose members were killed by Israelis, including
    families of several suicide-bomber.

    Saddam Hussein is an undisputed hero in the Palestinian
    territories.

    When Israeli troops occupied Palestinian territories in
    March, the Iraqi leader announced that he is cutting off Iraqi
    oil exports until Israel withdraws from the Palestinian
    territories.


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