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Road Map Put to Bloody Test
Aired June 12, 2003 - 06:29 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The road map is put to a bloody test. Will it or anything ever lead to peace in the Middle East? A suicide bombing, missile attacks in Gaza, the cycle of violence seems never ending.
Live to Jerusalem now and Jerrold Kessel -- and, Jerrold, funeral arrangements are under way this morning.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Carol. After the vortex of violence yesterday, today it's funerals. Funerals have gotten under way in Gaza for Hamas militants. Four of the Palestinian militants were killed in those two Israeli air strikes by helicopter gunships. Also, five Palestinian bystanders killed by the Israeli missile strikes. And later there will be funerals here in Jerusalem for many of the 16 people who were killed aboard that bus in the heart of the city. A Palestinian suicide bomber boarding the bus disguised as a religious Jew, killing 16 people, many of them elderly men and women.
Hamas is claiming responsibility for that attack here in the center of Jerusalem and vowing to go on with its attacks in Israeli cities. The Israeli prime minister is making a firm pledge of his own that he will hunt down, Israeli security will hunt down the militant leadership right to the bitter end, says Ariel Sharon. And this morning in the Israeli cabinet, where Mr. Sharon briefed his ministers on the situation, his assessment of it, he said he had given no firm commitment at last week's Aqaba summit, which sent off the peace initiative with such fanfare, that he would give up the targeted assassinations of militant leaders.
Now, Mr. Sharon also had some very tough words to say for the Palestinian prime minister and the Israeli chief of staff said no point in getting to or trying to get a cease-fire with the militants. All they should do is try to hunt them down.
So some tough words after yesterday's violence, bleak prospects for the peace initiative launched only last week by President Bush -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jerrold Kessel live from Jerusalem.
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Aired June 12, 2003 - 06:29 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The road map is put to a bloody test. Will it or anything ever lead to peace in the Middle East? A suicide bombing, missile attacks in Gaza, the cycle of violence seems never ending.
Live to Jerusalem now and Jerrold Kessel -- and, Jerrold, funeral arrangements are under way this morning.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Carol. After the vortex of violence yesterday, today it's funerals. Funerals have gotten under way in Gaza for Hamas militants. Four of the Palestinian militants were killed in those two Israeli air strikes by helicopter gunships. Also, five Palestinian bystanders killed by the Israeli missile strikes. And later there will be funerals here in Jerusalem for many of the 16 people who were killed aboard that bus in the heart of the city. A Palestinian suicide bomber boarding the bus disguised as a religious Jew, killing 16 people, many of them elderly men and women.
Hamas is claiming responsibility for that attack here in the center of Jerusalem and vowing to go on with its attacks in Israeli cities. The Israeli prime minister is making a firm pledge of his own that he will hunt down, Israeli security will hunt down the militant leadership right to the bitter end, says Ariel Sharon. And this morning in the Israeli cabinet, where Mr. Sharon briefed his ministers on the situation, his assessment of it, he said he had given no firm commitment at last week's Aqaba summit, which sent off the peace initiative with such fanfare, that he would give up the targeted assassinations of militant leaders.
Now, Mr. Sharon also had some very tough words to say for the Palestinian prime minister and the Israeli chief of staff said no point in getting to or trying to get a cease-fire with the militants. All they should do is try to hunt them down.
So some tough words after yesterday's violence, bleak prospects for the peace initiative launched only last week by President Bush -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jerrold Kessel live from Jerusalem.
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