JERUSALEM: CONTROVERSIAL POSTERS PROCLAIMING JERUSLAEM AS ETERNAL CAPITAL OF PALESTINE PLACED OUTSIDE MONASTRY WHERE POPE JOHN PAUL II IS DUE TO STAY

Record ID: 636772

  • Title: JERUSALEM: CONTROVERSIAL POSTERS PROCLAIMING JERUSLAEM AS ETERNAL CAPITAL OF PALESTINE PLACED OUTSIDE MONASTRY WHERE POPE JOHN PAUL II IS DUE TO STAY
  • Date: 20th March 2000
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (MARCH 20, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SHOTS) 1. CU: OFFICIAL SIGN WELCOMING THE POPE TO JERUSALEM 0.06 2. WS/SLV/MV: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN FLAG HUNG SIDE BY SIDE IN JERUSALEM/ PALESTINIAN FLAGS (3 SHOTS) 0.28 3. CU: SIGN AT THE GATE OF AUGUSTA VITORIA MONSETERY WHERE THE POPE WILL STAY WHILE IN JERUSALEM 0.36 4. SCU/CU: GATE OF AGUSTA VICTORIA WITH POSTER SHOWING PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT, YASSER ARAFAT AND THE POPE, READING: 'JERUSALEM THE ETERNAL CAPITAL OF PALESTINE WELCOMES HIS HOLLINES POPE JOHN PAUL II' (2 SHOTS) 0.50 5. PAN: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN FLAG HUNG SIDE BY SIDE 1.02 6. SV: ISRAELI SOLDIERS 1.08 7. WIDE OF THE STREET 1.13 8. CU; POLICE CAR LIGHTS 1.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA2APLWVYURU3FIU76WDOQO35V8
  • Story Text: Palestinian flags and controversial posters proclaiming Jerusalem
    to be the eternal capital of Palestine have been placed outside
    a monastery, where Pope John Paul II is scheduled to stay
    during his forthcoming trip to the Holy Land.

    Posters put up in early morning hours on Monday (March
    20) near the Augusta Victoria monastery, the Holy Father's
    residence during his pilgrImage to the Holy Land, referred to
    Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

    Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem, including the walled
    Old City with its major religious shrines, in the 1967 Middle
    East war and regards it as part of its "united capital".

    Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of a future state.

    Vatican has tried to steer clear of the controversial
    issue of the city's status.

    Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are expected to decide
    the fate of the city during their peace talks, due to resume
    in the United States on Tuesday.

    During the Pope's trip to the Holy land next week, Israel
    is expected to mount the biggest security operation for a
    foreign dignitary in its 52-year history.

    In a Jewish state born in conflict, scarred by bombings
    and obsessed with security, virtually the entire police force,
    4,000 soldiers and squads of special agents will be mobilised
    for the six-day papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

    Dubbed "Operation Old Friend", the security campaign will
    make full use of personal protection methods honed since the
    assassination in 1995 of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    The Polish-born Pope was shot and nearly killed by Turkish
    gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square in 1981 and almost
    stabbed by a dissident priest on a visit to Portugal in 1982.

    His arrival in Tel Aviv from Jordan on March 21 will
    coincide with the Jewish holiday Purim, which in past years
    has been marked by bombings by Palestinian militants opposed
    to peacemaking with Israel.


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