- Title: WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: BODY OF FAISAL AL-HUSSEINI ARRIVES FOR FUNERAL IN JERUSALEM.
- Date: 1st June 2001
- Summary: JERUSALEM (JUNE 1, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/GV: VIEWS OF AL-HARAM AL-SHARIF, KNOWN AS TEMPLE MOUNT TO ISRAELIS (3 SHOTS) 0.08 2. GV/PAN/GV: ORIENT HOUSE READY TO RECEIVE COFFIN OF FAISAL AL-HUSSEINI (2 SHOTS) 0.18 3. MV/GV: ISRAELI SOLDIERS DURING THE MORNING AT LION'S GATE CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 0.30 AL RAM CHECKPOINT, NEAR RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JUNE 1, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 4. GV: PROCESSION OF PALESTINIAN CARS WAITING TO GO THROUGH CHECKPOINT/ PALESTINIANS GOING THROUGH CHECKPOINT/ ISRAELI SOLDIERS AT CHECKPOINT EXAMINING CARS (5 SHOTS) 1.12 5. GV/TRACK: WHITE VAN BEARING COFFIN OF TOP PALESTINIAN OFFICIAL FAISAL AL-HUSSEINI ON ROOF/ VAN DRIVING FORWARD 1.28 6. GV: CARS IN PROCESSION AFTER PASSING CHECKPOINT 1.35 JERUSALEM (JUNE 1, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. MV/ZOOM OUT/LV: COFFIN OF HUSSEINI CARRIED INTO ORIENT HOUSE GROUNDS 1.46 8. VARIOUS: WOMEN MOURNERS/ COFFIN CARRIED INSIDE ORIENT HOUSE/ PEOPLE JOSTLING AS THE COFFIN IS CARRIED (7 SHOTS) 2.58 9. CU/MV/GV: PEOPLE MOURNING INSIDE ORIENT HOUSE/ BANNERS OF FAISAL AL-HUSSEINI/ MORE SCENES OUTSIDE (5 SHOTS) 3.31 10. MV/GV: MOURNERS WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAG ABOVE DAMASCUS GATE/ MEN CHANTING/ PALESTINIANS MASSING AT DAMASCUS GATE (5 SHOTS) 4.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEAR RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/JERUSALEM
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: The body of Faisal al-Husseini, the top Palestinian
official for Jerusalem has arrived in the holy city for a
hero's funeral accompanied by thousands of mourners, some of
whom raised the Palestinian flag over the old city of
Jerusalem.
Civilians and dignitaries packed the courtyard of
Husseini's old offices in the Orient House, the Palestine
Liberation Organisation's headquarters in Arab East Jerusalem,
on Friday (June 1) as verses from the Koran and prayers were
read over a loudspeaker.
Red, pink and white carnations and daisy wreaths decked
the building and Palestinian flags criss-crossed above the
funeral reception.
Hundreds paid their respects to Husseini as they filed
past his coffin on a pedestal in front of his old desk.
Among them was senior Palestinian minister Nabil Shaath
who said the Orient House was a fitting place to remember the
man who worked for the Palestinian right to Arab East
Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state.
Husseini died aged 60 on Thursday from a heart attack
while visiting Kuwait. Accusations by Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat on Thursday that Israeli teargas contributed to
the heart attack seemed likely to inflame passions amid a
Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
Husseini's final journey to Jerusalem from the West Bank
town of Ramallah was escorted by thousands of Palestinians
carrying his portrait and waving Palestinian flags along the
roadside.
To prevent tension between Palestinian mourners and Jews,
Israeli police closed off all Jewish areas of West Jerusalem
to traffic and Jewish areas of the walled Old City where
Husseini was to be buried.
After Husseini's body was flown to Ramallah by helicopter,
it was carried in a funeral procession by road to Jerusalem,
through the Al-Ram checkpoint. On the way Arafat reached up
and held on to the flower-wreathed coffin for a while,
saluting the man who was by his side in the decades of
struggle for an independent Palestinian state with Arab East
Jerusalem as its capital.
Husseini is to be laid to rest alongside his father and
grandfather at the Muslim holy site of al-Haram al-Sharif in
East Jerusalem.
A soft-spoken symbol of the struggle to make East
Jerusalem the capital of a future state, he was to be one of
few people to be buried on al-Haram al-Sharif, a shrine holy
to Jews as well, who know it as Temple Mount.
Palestinians raised their national flag on the wall of
Jerusalem's Old City after following al-Husseini's funeral
cortege.
A small group of Palestinians climbed onto the ancient
city wall and raised the black, red, green and white
Palestinian flag above the Damascus Gate entrance.
Police watched from a distance but did not intervene.
The Palestinans began an uprising against Israeli
occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last September,
demanding the creation of an independent Palestinian state
with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Israel captured the walled city in the 1967 Middle East
war and annexed it in a move not recognised internationally.
Palestinians following the coffin also raised flags near
an Israeli police station, at the entrance to the Justice
Ministry and at a post office in Arab East Jerusalem.
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