JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN THE WEST BANK FOLLOWING THE ISRAELI POLICE'S STORMING JERUSALEM'S AL-AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND
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JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN THE WEST BANK FOLLOWING THE ISRAELI POLICE'S STORMING JERUSALEM'S AL-AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND
- Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN THE WEST BANK FOLLOWING THE ISRAELI POLICE'S STORMING JERUSALEM'S AL-AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND
- Date: 29th July 2001
- Summary: (W4)TEMPLE MOUNT, JERUSALEM (JULY 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: PALESTINIANS RUNNING AROUND THE TEMPLE MOUNT COMPOUND DURING CONFRONTATIONS WITH ISRAELI POLICE 0.06 2. LV: CROWD OF PALESTINIANS IN DISTANCE AND ISRAELI POLICE RUNNING WITH RIOT SHIELDS, EXPLOSION 0.23 3. MV: PALESTINIAN YOUTHS THROWING STONES AT WALL 0.37 4. SV: PALESTINIAN MAN BEING ARRESTED AND LED AWAY TO SIDE OF COURTYARD, SOLDIERS SCUFFLE WITH, RESTRAIN AND DETAIN PALESTINIAN 0.58 5. MV: CROWD WALKING AROUND IN CONFUSION OUTSIDE THE COMPLEX, STONES AND SHOES LITTER THE GROUND /ISRAELI POLICE WITH RIOT SHILDS IN BACKGROUND 1.15 6. VARIOUS: ISRAELI POLICE WITH RIOT SHIELDS CIRCLE CROWD FROM A DISTANCE, AS PALESTINIAN THROW STONES AT THEM 1.30 7. LV: MORE PALESTINIANS APPROACH TEMPLE MOUNT FROM ANOTHER DIRECTION (SOUND OF MUEZZIN HEARD PRAYING FROM MOSQUE) 1.39 8. LV: ISRAELI RIOT POLICE STORMING TEMPLE MOUNT COMPLEX 1.47 9. SLV: JEWISH WORSHIPPERS AT WESTERN WALL PROTECTING THEIR HEADS WITH CHAIRS 1.54 10. SV: JEWISH WOMEN WORSHIPPERS BEING EVACUATED FROM WESTERN WALL; PULL OUT TO WIDE OF WESTERN WALL 2.01 11. CLOSE UP OF WOMEN COWERING AGAINST WALL THEY ARE EVACUATED FROM THE AREA / CLOSE UP OF FRIGHTENED WOMEN LEAVING WALL, ONE WOMAN CARRYING A LITTLE GIRL WHO IS CRYING 2.12 (W5)JERUSALEM (JULY 29, 2001)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 12. TRACK: JEWISH WORSHIPPERS BEING EVACUATED FROM WESTERN WALL PLAZA BY ISRAELI SECURITY SERVICES / YOUNG WOMAN AND HER DAUGHTER GETTING INTO VAN FOR EVACUATION FROM THE AREA 2.26 13. SV: ELDERLY WOMEN GETTING INTO VAN 2.31 14. SV: POLICE WOMAN WITH WOUNDED LEG BEING ATTENDED TO 2.39 15. CLOSEUP OF POLICE WOMAN 2.44 16. MV: POLICE CARRYING WOUNDED ON STRETCHERS OUT OF TEMPLE MOUNT COMPOUND 2.49 17. CLOSE UP OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS ON STRETCHER 2.58 18. TRACK: MORE OF WOUNDED SOLDIER 3.08 19. WIDE SHOT OF WESTERN WALL 3.15 20. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (English) RAANAN GISSIN, ADVISOR TO ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON, SAYING: "There was no need, and no reason, for this kind of violence that erupted up there, except for the fact that it was incited and developed by the Palestinian Authority as another desperate means to try and create trouble and create violence at this very, very holy site to three religions." 3.35 (W4)JERUSALEM (JULY 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 21. LV: PALESTINIAN CROWD OUTSIDE DOME OF THE ROCK SHRINE IN COMPOUND 3.41 22. WS/SLV: CHANTING PALESTINIAN CROWDS WALKING TOWARDS ANOTHER PART OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT COMPOUND (2 SHOTS) 3.56 23. WS: PALESTINIAN CROWD DEMONSTRATING AND CLAPPING HANDS ABOVE THEIR HEADS OUTSIDE TEMPLE MOUNT COMPOUND 4.02 24. CLOSE UP OF PALESTINIANS CHANTING AND SHOUTING AND CLAPPING HANDS ABOVE THEIR HEADS 4.08 25. LV: PALESTINIAN CROWD PROTESTING IN FRONT OF DOME OF THE ROCK SHRINE 4.14 26. WIDE OF DOME OF THE ROCK SHRINE AND CROWD OF PALESTINIANS WALKING PAST IT, CHANTING 4.21 (W4)RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JULY 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 27. LV: ISRAELI TANKS AT NORTHERN ENTRANCE TO RAMALLAH, GUNSHOTS HEARD IN BACKGROUND / CLOUD OF SMOKE AND TANK MOVES SLOWLY AWAY DOWN ROAD 4.41 28. SLV: PALESTINIAN GUNMAN SHOOTING ASSAULT RIFLE, THEN RUNNING FOR COVER BEHIND TREES 4.52 29. LV: TANK TURNING ITS TURRET TOWARDS PALESTINIAN TARGET 5.10 30. MV: MORE PALESTINIAN GUNMEN FIRING SPRAYS OF BULLETS 5.21 31. LV: BURST OF SMOKE AFTER TANK FIRES SHELL FROM ROAD 5.38 (W5)HEBRON, WEST BANK (JULY 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 32. SLV: PALESTINIANS CARRYING FLAGS AND BANNERS AS THEY MARCH THROUGH CENTRE OF HEBRON 5.44 33. SCU: PALESTINIAN IN MARCH ADDRESSES CROWD THROUGH LOUDSPEAKER 5.52 34. SV: MORE OF MARCHERS 5.58 35. SV: MARCHERS WITH FLAGS AND BANNERS 6.04 36. MV: ISRAELI SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH CENTRAL HEBRON 6.12 37. SV: SOLDIERS FIRING IN BUILT-UP PART OF HEBRON; AND CONGRATULATING EACH OTHER 6.20 38. SV OF SOLDIERS FIRING 6.23 39. CLOSE UP OF SOLDIERS WATCHING PROTESTERS WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAGS 6.30 40. CLOSE UP OF SOLDIER FIRING 6.33 41. WIDE OF ISRAELI ARMY VEHICLE AND SOLDIERS IN STREET 6.38 (W5) NABLUS, WEST BANK (JULY 29, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 42. LV/SV: PALESTINIAN MARCHERS IN NABLUS, CHANTING SLOGANS (2 SHOTS) 6.52 43. SV: DEMONSTRATORS SETTING ALIGHT MODEL OF ANCIENT JEWISH TEMPLE, WHISTLING IN BACKGROUND / DEMONSTRATORS BURNING EFFIGY OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON 7.18 44. SV: PROTESTERS CHANTING AND CHEERING AROUND FIRE 7.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH, HEBRON AND NABLUS, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Israeli police stormed Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque
compound on Sunday after Palestinians threw stones at Jewish
worshippers from the site where a Palestinian uprising started
10 months ago. At least 15 policemen were wounded during the
unrest.
In response to the Israelis storming of the holy site,
Palestinian protests erupted in the West Bank, while on the
outskirts of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers and Palestinians
fought a major gun battle. Two Israeli soldiers and one
Palestinian police officer were wounded.
Israeli police stormed Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque
compound on Sunday (July 29) after Palestinians threw stones
at Jewish worshippers from the site where a Palestinian
uprising started 10 months ago.
At least 15 policemen were wounded by the stone-throwing
Palestinians, a police spokesman said. A Reuters television
cameraman at the compound said at least one Palestinian was
hurt when police fired teargas and stun grenades at the
worshippers.
A police spokesman said earlier a police force that had
stormed the area was dispersing Muslim worshippers, some of
whom entered the site's two mosques. Police had surrounded the
mosques, the spokesman said.
The area is revered by Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and
is also Judaism's holiest site -- the Temple Mount.
Dozens of Palestinians lobbed stones over the wall as
Muslim clerics called for calm over mosque loudspeakers.
Within minutes, Israeli troops carrying riot shields rushed
into the the mosque plaza in single file.
Police evacuated Jewish worshippers from the Western Wall
-- which forms one side of the biblical Temple complex --
where they were praying on a fast day commemorating the
destruction of two ancient temples. The worshippers were later
allowed to return when Israeli police had regained control.
Israeli police were on heightened alert after warnings by
Palestinian officials that a plan by an extreme right-wing
Jewish group to lay a 4.5-tonne marble cornerstone at the site
could lead to violence.
The Temple Mount Faithful fringe group backed off from its
plan to lay the cornerstone but stone-throwing broke out
later.
The cornerstone was brought on a truck escorted by two
police cars to an Old City gate early on Sunday and then
removed, witnesses said.
Muslim leaders had called on their faithful to come to the
shrine to protect the mosque compound "with their bodies".
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction had
called for a "day of rage" and urged Palestinians to mass on
Sunday at the holy site to bar any attempt by the group to
carry the stone into the compound.
Large crowds of Palestinians converged on the site from
all sides, chanting and clapping their hands above their
heads.
The al-Haram al-Sharif site is administered by Muslim
clerics, who have barred non-Muslims from entering since the
Palestinian uprising began last September.
Raanan Gissin, adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, told Reuters there was no need for the violence that
erupted at the site on Sunday.
"...It was incited and developed by the Palestinian
Authority as another desperate means to try and create trouble
and create violence at this very, very holy site to three
religions," he added.
Clashes at the site, Judaism's holiest and one of the most
sacred to Muslims, could further inflame passions in the
uprising against Israeli occupation in which more than 600
people, mostly Palestinians, have been killed.
While attention focused on Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers and
Palestinians fought a gun battle on the outskirts of the West
Bank city of Ramallah, the Israeli army and Palestinian
security sources said.
Two Israeli soldiers and one Palestinian police officer
were wounded in the fighting. The Israeli army stationed three
tanks at a checkpoint leading into the city.
The gunfight broke out after Palestinians fired on an
Israeli army jeep in Surda just outside the city, lightly
wounding the two soldiers, an army spokeswoman said.
In response to the events in Jerusalem, hundreds of
Palestinian protesters took to the streets on Sunday in the
major West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah bearing
Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Israeli slogans.
Tension was high in Hebron where there were confrontations
between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers
In Nablus, the crowd burnt a model of the ancient Jewish
temple and an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
At least 493 Palestinians, 130 Israelis and 13 Israeli
Arabs have been killed since the uprising flared after peace
talks stalled
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