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Palestinians Fire Rockets Into Southern Israel
Aired October 19, 2003 - 11:10 ET
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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: There's no letup this weekend in Middle East violence. Israel says Palestinians in Gaza fired rockets today into southern Israel. Israeli forces are also keeping up their search for accused weapons smugglers in southern Gaza. CNN's Chris Burns is keeping track of the latest developments, and he's in Jerusalem. Chris?
CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Suzanne. Yes, more violence, at least eight rockets, these are homemade made by Palestinian militants, fired from northern Gaza into southern Israel. No damage reported, no injuries reported but this is an ongoing thing.
They do continue to fire those rockets into southern Israel and that despite the Israeli crackdown that was more than a week old in southern Gaza, trying to cut off what they said were tunnels that would lead from Egypt into Gaza allowing the militants to smuggle weapons into Gaza to stage those attacks. There seems to be a militant message to the Israelis that no matter what they do, they can't stop the flow of weapons.
The Israelis say they have found three tunnels and destroyed them but there's also a lot of destruction. They have begun to pull out. There are reports they've begun to pull out of a lot of areas, but have not entirely pulled out according to the Israeli military. According to the United Nations and people on the ground, at least 14 people were killed, some of them militants, but some of them civilians, scores injured, and then talk about the homeless, more than 1200 people left homeless after the U.N. says more than a hundred homes were destroyed. So a lot of destruction that even U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said was heavy-handed.
Further, there is the investigation of the bombing of the U.S. convoy that killed three U.S. security guards earlier this week in Gaza. That investigation goes on. The FBI is on the ground there trying to get to the bottom of it. Back to you, Suzanne.
MALVEAUX: Thank you, Chris.
BURNS: Thank you.
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Aired October 19, 2003 - 11:10 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: There's no letup this weekend in Middle East violence. Israel says Palestinians in Gaza fired rockets today into southern Israel. Israeli forces are also keeping up their search for accused weapons smugglers in southern Gaza. CNN's Chris Burns is keeping track of the latest developments, and he's in Jerusalem. Chris?
CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Suzanne. Yes, more violence, at least eight rockets, these are homemade made by Palestinian militants, fired from northern Gaza into southern Israel. No damage reported, no injuries reported but this is an ongoing thing.
They do continue to fire those rockets into southern Israel and that despite the Israeli crackdown that was more than a week old in southern Gaza, trying to cut off what they said were tunnels that would lead from Egypt into Gaza allowing the militants to smuggle weapons into Gaza to stage those attacks. There seems to be a militant message to the Israelis that no matter what they do, they can't stop the flow of weapons.
The Israelis say they have found three tunnels and destroyed them but there's also a lot of destruction. They have begun to pull out. There are reports they've begun to pull out of a lot of areas, but have not entirely pulled out according to the Israeli military. According to the United Nations and people on the ground, at least 14 people were killed, some of them militants, but some of them civilians, scores injured, and then talk about the homeless, more than 1200 people left homeless after the U.N. says more than a hundred homes were destroyed. So a lot of destruction that even U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said was heavy-handed.
Further, there is the investigation of the bombing of the U.S. convoy that killed three U.S. security guards earlier this week in Gaza. That investigation goes on. The FBI is on the ground there trying to get to the bottom of it. Back to you, Suzanne.
MALVEAUX: Thank you, Chris.
BURNS: Thank you.
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