JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: SPEAKERS AT MOSLEM PRAYER MEETING REJECT ANY ATTEMPT TO GIVE UP PALESTINIAN CLAIMS TO EAST JERUSALEM

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  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: SPEAKERS AT MOSLEM PRAYER MEETING REJECT ANY ATTEMPT TO GIVE UP PALESTINIAN CLAIMS TO EAST JERUSALEM
  • Date: 21st July 2000
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (JULY 21, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV SECURITY OUTSIDE THE WESTERN WALL (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. WS WIDE OF THE WESTERN WALL 0.13 3. SLV MEN PRAYING FOR PEACE (2 SHOTS) 0.24 4. SV MAN LEANING ON THE WALL AND PRAYING 0.34 5. SV WOMEN PRAYING 0.37 6. LV MOSLEM PRAYERS ENTERING THE OLD PART OF JERUSALEM (2 SHOTS) 0.47 7. BV ISRAELI POLICE AT GATE 0.52 8. MV MOSLEMS ENTRING AL AQSA MOSQUE AREA 0.56 9. SLV MOSLEMS PRAYING INSIDE AL AQSA MOSQUE 1.03 10. GV WIDE OF PRAYERS AT AL AQSA MOSQUE 1.12 11. SET UP/ SV SOUNBITE (English) PALESTINIAN SPOKESWOMAN HANAN ASHRAWI SAYING: "The issue of sovereignty over Jerusalem is one of Palestinian sovereignty over east Jerusalem if Israel want sovereignty over west Jerusalem, that is the only principle of sharing sovereignty that we have advocated all along which is consistence with international law."/ LEAVING (3 SHOTS) 1.46 12. LV ROOFTOP OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE 1.50 13. LV DOME OF THE ROCK AT THE OLD CITY 1.54 14. MV NEWPAPER STAND OUTSIDE THE OLD CITY 2.01 15. CU/SLV HEADLINE OF NEWSWEEK/ MAN BUYING NEWSPAPER (2 SHOTS) 2.15 16. SV/CU MAN READING NEWSPAPER (2 SHOTS) 2.21 17. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALESTINIAN RESIDENT IN JERUSALEM, BASSAM AHMED SAYING: "I think everyone will be happy if the national Palestinian Authority will come and rule the region." 2.35 18. WS DAMASCUS GATE AT THE OLD CITY 2.38 19. MV ISRAELI BORDER POLICE AT THE GATE 2.41 20. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALESTINIAN RESIDENT FAYEZ KHAZADAR SAYING "Some part of Jerusalem, holy sites, should be controlled by the Palestinian Authorities, because it is a very sensative issue to the Muslim community, and to the Palestinians and the rest of the world." 3.03 21. SLV SECURITY AT THE DAMASCUS GATE 3.10 22. LV DAMASCUS GATE 3.17 BALATA REGUGEE CAMP, NEAR NABLUS, WEST BANK (JULY 21, 2000) (REUTERS) 23. MV ISLAMIC HAMAS SUPPORTERS BURNING ISRAELI AND AMERICAN FLAGS 3.38 24. MV HAMAS SUPPORTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS AGAINST CAMP DAVID SUMMIT/MARCHING THROUGH STREETS (3 SHOTS) 4.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ NABLUS, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA1PY08J676T296XYRPA7KZ0V08
  • Story Text: At weekly Moslem prayers held in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa
    mosque, speakers have rejected any attempt to give up
    Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Israeli
    security remained on alert near the Old City.

    Palestinians have expressed hope that talks at Camp David
    about the future of the city would result in Palestinian
    control over the eastern sector of the city, captured by
    Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.



    As talks between Israel and the Palestinians at
    Camp David focused on the future of Jerusalem, speakers at Moslem
    prayers on Friday (July 21) expressed hope that Palestinians
    would gain total control over the eastern section of the city.

    Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said Palestinians
    were committed to acheiving sovereignty over East Jerusalem.

    The issue of sovereignty over Jerusalem is one of
    Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem if Israel want
    sovereignty over west Jerusalem, that is the only principle of
    sharing sovereignty that we have advocated all along which is
    consistence with international law, she said.

    Meanwhile several hundred Palestinians staged a march
    after Friday prayers in the Balata refugee camp near the West
    Bank city of Nablus.

    They urged their negotiating team to stand firm on refugee
    rights. Some armed demonstrators fired shots in the air.

    Activists from the militant Islamic group Hamas pledged
    during the march that they would continue the path of jihad,
    or Moslem holy struggle, no matter what the outcome of the
    summit.

    Banners proclaimed: We will defend Jerusalem with our
    blood. Hamas supporters burned Israeli and American flags in
    the rally.

    As talks between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David
    focused on the future of Jerusalem, Palestinians in East
    Jerusalem expressed hope that control of the city will be
    divided between the sides.

    Arabic newspaper headlines at a news stand next to the Old
    Citys Damascus gate reported the various solutions suggested
    to resolve the issue.

    Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle
    East War, and annexed it in a move not recognised internationally.

    Israel says Jerusalem must remain its undivided capital
    while Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, at Camp David with
    Barak, wants East Jerusalem for the capital of a future
    Palestinian state.

    U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been urging
    Israeli and Palestinian officials to make tough decisions on
    Jerusalem before President Bill Clinton races back to Camp
    David from a G8 summit in Japan. He left early on Thursday.


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