VARIOUS: IMPRISONED WEST BANK FATAH LEADER MARWAN BARGHOUTI RETURNS TO COURT FOR MURDER TRIAL

Record ID: 645871

  • Title: VARIOUS: IMPRISONED WEST BANK FATAH LEADER MARWAN BARGHOUTI RETURNS TO COURT FOR MURDER TRIAL
  • Date: 3rd January 2003
  • Summary: (W6) TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (JANUARY 2, 2003) (REUTERS) LAST TILT DOWN SLV EXTERIOR OF COURT PAN TO WIDE PEOPLE LOOKING AT POSTERS MV JUDGE ENTERING COURTROOM MV BARGHOUTI ENTERING COURTROOM; MV BARGHOUTI RAISING HANDCUFFED ARMS IN THE AIR AS BEREAVED FAMILIES OF ISRAELIS SCREAM AT HIM (English) WEST BANK FATAH LEADER MARWAN BARGHOUTI YELLING AT COURT PARTICIPANTS "The Intifada will win, the Intifada will win and the peace will win and the occupation will be defeated" MV PAN TO SECURITY ORDERING BARGHOUTI BACK INTO HOLDING CELL AND REPORTERS OUT OF COURTROOM; MV BARGHOUTI REFUSING TO MOVE CONTINUING TO SHOUT ANTI-ISRAELI SLOGANS; MV POLICE PULLING BARGHOUTI INTO SEPARATE ROOM MV BEREAVED FAMILY MEMBERS OF ISRAELIS KILLED IN PALESTINIAN INTIFADA SITTING AND SAYING "HE IS A TERRORIST AND HE IS A MURDERER" MV REPORTERS BEING LED OUT OF COURTROOM (U3) RAFAH, GAZA (JANUARY 2, 2003) (REUTERS) FOR DETAILED SHOTLIST 5 - 15 SEE PROD 0046/02: SLV PAN OUT TO CONCRETE WALL RUBBLE FALLEN ONTO CAR; SLV BUILDING DAMAGED DURING ISRAELI OPERATION; SCU DAMAGE PAN OUT TO MAN CLEANING WRECKAGE; SCU BAGS PILED INSIDE BUILDING; MV BAGS PILED INSIDE BUILDING NEXT TO YELLOW PLASTIC JUGS (U3) GAZA (JANUARY 2, 2003) (REUTERS) SLV PEOPLE SIFTING THROUGH DEBRIS IN BUREIJ VILLAGE; MV YOUTH CLIMBING ON RUBBLE (U3) JERUSALEM (JANUARY 2, 2003) (REUTERS) MV ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN AVI PAZNER ON THE PHONE SEATED AT HIS DESK (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN AVI PAZNER SAYING "We are searching for well known terrorists. We are searching for arms. We are searching for manufacturing places of missiles which are hitting our kibbutzes and our villages near the Gaza Strip. We are looking for terrorists with blood on their hands and we are conducting searches which have proved very useful in the past in preventing terrorist's attacks. We have no intention of staying in the Gaza Strip. Our operation is a clean-up and mop-up operation." (U3) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JANUARY 2, 2003) (REUTERS) MV NABIL ABU RDAINAH, SENIOR ADVISOR TO PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT, WALKING OUT TO MEET REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) NABIL ABU RDAINAH, SENIOR ADVISOR TO PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT, SAYING "This continued Israeli escalation is aimed, as usual, to ruin any possibility of finding a political solution for the crisis. The Israelis, as usual, are endangering the interests of everybody including the United States and the Middle East by continuing and escalating their aggression, their killings and assassinations and demolitions of homes of the Palestinian civilian people." SLV RDAINAH IN FRONT OF ARAFAT'S COMPOUND TALKING TO REPORTERS; SLV EXTERIOR OF COMPOUND WITH PALESTINIAN FLAG SCU PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT; PAN OUT TO ARAFAT MEETING WITH EUROPEAN DELEGATION SEATED AROUND TABLE WITH AIDES WIDE OF ARAFAT WITH DELEGATION 28 (W4) GAZA (JANUARY 2, 2003) (REUTERS) SLV MEN CARRYING BODY YELLING AND RUNNING THROUGH STREET; SLV PALESTINIANS CARRYING ANOTHER BODY WHILE YELLING AND RUNNING SLV CAR TRAFFIC OF FUNERAL PARTICIPANTS EN ROUTE TO HOMES OF MILITANTS KILLED SLV/MV YOUTH ON BUS HOLDING UP HANDS WITH PEACE SIGN AS BUS MOVES THROUGH TRAFFIC SLV HUNDREDS OF MARCHERS IN FUNERAL PROCESSION IN CENTRAL GAZA CITY RUNNING THROUGH STREET WITH BODY
  • Embargoed: 18th January 2003 12:00
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  • Location: GAZA/ RAFAH, GAZA/ RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM/ MAOR, ISRAEL/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA9TVDH9RX8O7CMGM5GZ2QDE040
  • Story Text: Imprisoned West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti has returned to court, where he and angry Israelis who lost loved ones in the Palestinian Intifada hurled insults at one another. The acrimonious exchanges have become familiar in the murder trial of the leader of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's faction.
    The violence between Israelis and Palestinians have surged for another day with demolitions, shootings and funeral.
    Imprisoned West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti returned to a Tel Aviv District court Thursday (January 2, 2003), where an Israeli judge ordered one of the leaders of the Palestinian uprising, held in jail until the end of his murder trial.
    The stormy session, in which police pulled Barghouti out of the courtroom twice occurred after the Fatah leader and angry Israelis who lost loved ones in the Palestinian Intifada, hurled insults at one another.
    Handcuffed and surrounded by police, Bargouthi responded, as he has in the past, by shouting: "The Intifada (uprising) will win. The peace will win and the occupation will be defeated."
    The acrimonious exchanges have become familiar in the murder trial of the leader of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's faction, the difference this time was that he fell or was pushed to the floor -- reporters could not tell for sure from their vantage point in the crowded chamber -- when police pulled him out of the courtroom in an apparent attempt to end his outburst.
    43- year old Bargouthi, who is accused of the murder of twenty six Israelis, was met on his entry into the Tel Aviv courtroom by what has become a regular chorus of abuse from relatives of some of the dead.
    Bargouthi has denied any role in attacks by militants, including those by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group linked to Fatah which has killed dozens of Israelis since the uprising for statehood began in September 2000 and Palestinian officials have said Israel is conducting a show trial against the leader.
    Israeli forces withdrew from the Nusairat and Bureijre refugee camp on outskirts of Gaza and Rafah after a two-hour night-time operation, designed to look for wanted militants.
    The Israeli forces, backed by assault helicopters, battled with gunmen in Gaza refugee camps on Thursday (January 2) after killing four Palestinians who the army said were on their way to attack Jewish settlements.
    The army said it sent infantry and armour, supported by assault helicopters, in the central Gaza Strip as part of its continuing battle against "terrorism".
    The camps are considered strongholds of Palestinian militants waging a more than two-year-old uprising for independence and the violence came amid U.S. calls for Middle East calm to avoid jarring Washington's plans for possible war on Iraq.
    In the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, where Israeli forces regularly operate to uncover militant gunrunner tunnels from nearby Egypt, witnesses said bulldozers demolished 10 structures.
    The army said it destroyed the buildings after gunmen inside had fired at soldiers and two soldiers were wounded in the operation.
    In Jerusalem, Israeli Government Spokesman Avi Pazner reacted Thursday to the Israeli troops that went into Gaza in pursuit of Palestinian militants who continue to attack Israelis saying: "We have no intention in staying the Gaza Strip. Our operation is a clean up and mop up operation."
    In Ramallah - while Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met with a European delegation - senior advisor to Arafat, Nabil Abu Rdainah, reacted to Israel's military move saying: "This continued Israeli escalation is aimed, as usual, to ruin any possibility of finding a political solution for the crisis. The Israelis, as usual, are endangering the interests of everybody including the United States and the Middle East by continuing and escalating their aggression their killings and assassinations and demolition homes of the Palestinians civilian people. "
    Hundreds of Palestinians, many of whom were carrying assault rifles, marched in Gaza in the funeral of three teenagers killed by Israeli soldiers as they climbed a security fence into a Jewish settlement.
    A senior Israeli commander described the three poorly armed youths dressed in dark civilian clothes as being intercepted after climbing a security fence protecting the Elei Sinai settlement and heading towards it in a crouch, commando-style.
    Palestinian security sources and the youths' relatives said the youths had apparently acted independently, as they had no known militant affiliations.
    But some of the answers from the Palestinian side were not peaceful. In the Israeli village of Maor, five km (three miles) from the West Bank, an Israeli couple in the house escaped when his assault rifle jammed.
    Police said a three-hour night-time stand-off ended when they killed a man armed with an M-16 rifle who was holed up in a house he had broken into.
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