- Title: JERUSALEM: THOUSANDS OF KOREAN CHRISTIANS GATHER TO MARCH FOR PEACE
- Date: 10th August 2005
- Summary: (BN7) JERUSALEM (AUGUST 10, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. HAS PAN THOUSANDS OF KOREAN CHRISTIANS GATHER TO SHOW SOLIDARITY BEFORE GAZA WITHDRAWAL IN A MARCH FOR PEACE TO THE WEST BANK; MV SIGN SAYING "LOVE AND FORGIVENESS, ON THIS LAND"; PEOPLE GATHERING (6 SHOTS) 0.37 2. MV PEOPLE SITTING ON FLOOR IN KOREAN TRADITIONAL DRESS 0.46 3. MV KOREANS ARRIVING FOR MARCH; PEOPLE PLAYING A KEYBOARD; KOREANS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS TAKING PART IN MASS PRAYER (VARIOUS) 4. MV PEOPLE STANDING UP AND SINGING; SCU GIRL SINGING; MAN SINGING; MV BANNERS THAT READ "GOD LOVES JERUSALEM" AND "PEACE MARCH 2005"/CEREMONY (VARIOUS) 2.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: JERUSALEM
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- Country: Israel
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- Story Text: Thousands of Korean Christians gather in Jerusalem
to march for peace.
Up to three thousand Korean Christians prayed in
Jerusalem on Wednesday (August 10, 2005) in solidarity
with Israelis and Palestinians.
The men, women and children sang and held hands as they
gathered outside the city's Teddy Stadium.
Israel's Tourism Minister and Korean dignitaries will
greet the group, who will march through an Israeli army
checkpoint to the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The event is a part of Korean Cultural week in
Jerusalem, which takes place from August 7th to the 10th.
The group is touring West Bank cities and hosting
events, including football matches and music performances,
in an attempt to promote peace in Israel and the
Palestinian territory.
Members of the Institute of Asia Cultural Development
(IACD), a Christian cultural organisation, university
students and families, spent the day in Bethlehem on Monday
(August 8), entertaining residents with Korean songs and
dances and giving them a taste of traditional dishes.
Israel plans to begin evacuating settlements on August
17 but troops are expected to remain in the Gaza Strip
until at least October.
Palestinians hope to build high-rise housing in the
settlements, where some 8,500 Israelis live in one-family
homes. The new apartments would alleviate crowded
conditions in the coastal strip where some 1.4 million
Palestinians live.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has billed his plan
to remove all 21 Gaza settlements and four of 120 in the
West Bank as "disengagement" from conflict with the
Palestinians.
Palestinians welcome the Israeli pullout but fear the
withdrawal is a ruse to trade tiny Gaza for much of the
West Bank, where the majority of Israel's 240,000 settlers
live.
The World Court calls Israeli settlements on land
captured in the 1967 Middle East war illegal. Israel
disputes this.
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