WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF ASSASSINATED HAMAS MILITANT AHMED MARSHOUD/ ISRAELI PULLOUT OF PALESTINIAN AREAS CONTINUES

Record ID: 566270

  • Title: WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF ASSASSINATED HAMAS MILITANT AHMED MARSHOUD/ ISRAELI PULLOUT OF PALESTINIAN AREAS CONTINUES
  • Date: 15th October 2001
  • Summary: (U3) NABLUS, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 15, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV: SMOKING CAR WITH PALESTINIANS TRYING TO PUT OUT FIRE/ MAN ON PHONE 0.10 2. VARIOUS: PEOPLE RUNNING TOWARDS SCENE 0.17 3. SV: TARGET OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AHMED MARSHOUD STILL ALIVE, LYING ON GROUND IN POOL OF BLOOD 0.27 4. HAS: MEDICS TAKING MARSHOUD AWAY ON STRETCHER, PUTTING HIM IN AMBULANCE 0.33 5. SLV: CAR STILL SMOKING, CROWD AROUND CAR, PAN CROWD AT SCENE 0.45 6. SV'S: WRECKAGE OF CAR; FIREMEN EXTINGUISHING FIRE (2 SHOTS) 1.09 (U5) NABLUS, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 15, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. SV: MASKED MEN CARRYING BODY AT FUNERAL PROCESSION 1.18 8. SV: WOMEN CHANTING AT FUNERAL 1.24 9. HAS: CROWD MARCHING AT FUNERAL HOLDING POSTERS OF AHMED MARSHOUD AND SHOUTING 'THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH' 1.30 10. SCU: MASKED MEN CARRYING BODY OF AHMED MARSHOUD, CHANTING, KISSING BODY 1.38 11. HAS: CROWD MARCHING CARRYING BODY AT FUNERAL 1.48 12. HAS: CROWD MARCHING AT FUNERAL PROCESSION, MEN FIRING INTO AIR, HOLDING HAMAS MOVEMENT FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 2.08 (U5) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 15, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. WS: PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AT SESSION 2.15 14. MV: PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS 2.20 15. SV: PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBER, HANAN ASHRAWI, OUTSIDE THE PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 2.25 16. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) ASHRAWI SAYING: "I think that the first thing that has to be addressed is lifting the whole siege as is, not carrying out cosmetic changes, and refraining once and for all, putting an end to this policy of wilfull and deliberate assassinations." 2.39 (U3) JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 15, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 17. SV/CU: GIDEON MEIR, ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, WALKING INTO OFFICE, HOLDING DOCUMENT 2.47 18. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) GIDEON MEIR, ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, SPEAKING ABOUT ISRAEL'S ASSASSINATION POLICY SAYING: "There is an obligation of any government to protect its people. Part of the obligation is to get after the Bin Ladens of our region. And the Bin Ladens of the Middle East are the Hamas, the Hizbollah and the Islamic Jihad." 3.03 (U5) NEAR RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 15, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 19. LV: PALESTINIAN CARS AT QALANDIA CHECKPOINT AT THE ENTRANCE TO RAMALLAH 3.18 20. MV: ISRAELI ARMY POST AT QALANDIA CHECKPOINT 3.25 21. SV: ISRAELI SOLDIER AT POST 3.29 22. SLV: PALESTINIAN CARS DRIVING THROUGH CHECKPOINT 3.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th October 2001 12:00
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  • Location: NABLUS AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAECAPX8YEJ0BDRNHYRELXU3MCT
  • Story Text: Thousands have attended the funeral of Ahmed Marshoud,
    a member of the militant Islamic Hamas group, who was killed
    in an explosion which Palestinians say was an Israeli
    assassination.

    Israel has pulled tanks out of the West Bank city of
    Hebron and said it would take further steps to ease the
    closure on the West Bank.


    Thousands of Palestinians marched through the West Bank
    city of Nablus on Monday (October 15) as they mourned the
    death of Ahmed Marshoud, a member of the militant Islamic
    Hamas group, killed in an explosion earlier on Monday.

    Marshoud's death was the second assassination in two days,
    an internationally condemned track-and-kill Israeli policy.

    It was unclear how Marshoud's car exploded. Some
    Palestinians said it was struck by a helicopter missile
    strike, while others said it was booby-trapped and exploded as
    Marshoud walked past. The Israeli army declined to comment on
    the assassination.

    With the assassinations, retaliatory bombings by Hamas
    could wreck the ceasefire, despite heavy pressure by the U.S.

    on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to reign-in militants.

    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction called
    the killings 'organised terrorism'.

    Palestinian council member Hanan Ashrawi had said that if
    Israel wants to revive peace talks it should concentrate on
    lifting the closure from the Palestinian cities and stop what
    she said were 'deliberate assassinations'.

    The killing on Monday brought the toll to 626 Palestinians
    and 175 Israelis since a Palestinian revolt against Israeli
    occupation erupted in September 2000 after a deadlock in peace
    negotiations.

    Meanwhile on Monday, Israel has pulled tanks out of
    Palestinian controlled areas in the West Bank town of Hebron
    and said it would take further steps to ease the closure.

    Outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian cars
    appeared to be moving through checkpoints, after weeks of
    closure.

    The easing of the siege was made under apparent U.S.

    pressure as part of Washington's bid for support in the region
    for its war on terrorism and went ahead despite the killing of
    an Islamic militant on Sunday (October 14) by Israeli forces.

    The latest move in Hebron had reverses re-occupation on
    October 5 when Israeli troops and armour entered
    neighbourhoods in the volatile town after Palestinian gunmen
    fired into a crowd of Jewish worshippers in the heart of
    Hebron two days earlier.

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet said in a statement
    it had decided to ease travel between some Palestinian cities
    in the West Bank, allowing the entry of petrol and widening
    the permitted fishing zone in the Gaza Strip, provided
    Palestinians fulfilled their commitments.

    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has met in London on
    Monday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

    Britain is Washington's strongest ally in a military
    campaign in Afghanistan and is also keen to kick-start the
    moribund Middle East peace process.


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