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Day of Violence in Middle East
Aired November 22, 2002 - 14:02 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says Israel is destroying prospects for peace with all Arab nations. This, after Israeli tanks and troops rolled into one of the last major West Bank cities under Palestinian control.
Elsewhere, a U.N. official working to rebuild a Palestinian refugee camp was caught in the crossfire.
CNN's Jerrold Kessel begins with that.
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JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ian Hook was brought to the Jenin hospital. The British relief worker had only recently begun his work here for UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, overseeing rebuilding of the battle-scarred Jenin refugee camp.
The U.N. man was hit, Palestinian doctors said, by Israeli bullets after a gun battle had broken out between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen, but the dispute continued over who had actually fired the fatal shots. The death seems likely to intensify international pressure for an end to Palestinian-Israeli battles.
In a separate Jenin incident, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli fire.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces have been scouring Bethlehem. The suicide bomber, who killed 11 people on Thursday morning aboard a Jerusalem bus, came from Bethlehem.
In Jerusalem, Vladimir (ph) and his daughter, Jenya (ph) -- the only surviving members of the Sharshevsky family -- burying side by side Vladimir's (ph) wife, Ella, and their 16-year-old son, Michael. Mother and son, among those killed in the bus attack. A chain of Israeli funerals, international concern that the latest bloodletting might send the Palestinian-Israel conflict spiraling dangerously.
Within 24 hours, another suicide bombing, demolition of homes of Palestinians said were involved in terror, widespread curfews on Palestinian towns, and now, the major military operation in Bethlehem. There, Israel says, it detained 20 suspects, some of them primed to carry out more suicide attacks.
And facing Bethlehem, Israel's prime minister inspected an area bordering Jerusalem where Israel is building a fence to keep bombers out. Ariel Sharon vowing there will be no letup in his punishing policies.
"Anyone involved in terror will not, will not, be immune from our punitive actions," said Mr. Sharon, at a major cost to ordinary Palestinians, say Palestinian leaders.
GHASSAN KHATIB, PALESTINIAN CABINET MINISTER: Eighty percent of the Palestinian population in the West Bank is under curfew.
KESSEL: In Gaza, a Hamas rally, songs of praise for the Hamas military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, and its suicide bombers, and a promise from Hamas leaders of more and more attacks. Even if Israeli and Palestinian leaders seek to keep a lid on violence, while Washington works to keep them at least focused on Iraq, others here are vowing to keep the fires burning fiercely.
Jerrold Kessel, CNN, Jerusalem.
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Aired November 22, 2002 - 14:02 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says Israel is destroying prospects for peace with all Arab nations. This, after Israeli tanks and troops rolled into one of the last major West Bank cities under Palestinian control.
Elsewhere, a U.N. official working to rebuild a Palestinian refugee camp was caught in the crossfire.
CNN's Jerrold Kessel begins with that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ian Hook was brought to the Jenin hospital. The British relief worker had only recently begun his work here for UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, overseeing rebuilding of the battle-scarred Jenin refugee camp.
The U.N. man was hit, Palestinian doctors said, by Israeli bullets after a gun battle had broken out between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen, but the dispute continued over who had actually fired the fatal shots. The death seems likely to intensify international pressure for an end to Palestinian-Israeli battles.
In a separate Jenin incident, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli fire.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces have been scouring Bethlehem. The suicide bomber, who killed 11 people on Thursday morning aboard a Jerusalem bus, came from Bethlehem.
In Jerusalem, Vladimir (ph) and his daughter, Jenya (ph) -- the only surviving members of the Sharshevsky family -- burying side by side Vladimir's (ph) wife, Ella, and their 16-year-old son, Michael. Mother and son, among those killed in the bus attack. A chain of Israeli funerals, international concern that the latest bloodletting might send the Palestinian-Israel conflict spiraling dangerously.
Within 24 hours, another suicide bombing, demolition of homes of Palestinians said were involved in terror, widespread curfews on Palestinian towns, and now, the major military operation in Bethlehem. There, Israel says, it detained 20 suspects, some of them primed to carry out more suicide attacks.
And facing Bethlehem, Israel's prime minister inspected an area bordering Jerusalem where Israel is building a fence to keep bombers out. Ariel Sharon vowing there will be no letup in his punishing policies.
"Anyone involved in terror will not, will not, be immune from our punitive actions," said Mr. Sharon, at a major cost to ordinary Palestinians, say Palestinian leaders.
GHASSAN KHATIB, PALESTINIAN CABINET MINISTER: Eighty percent of the Palestinian population in the West Bank is under curfew.
KESSEL: In Gaza, a Hamas rally, songs of praise for the Hamas military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, and its suicide bombers, and a promise from Hamas leaders of more and more attacks. Even if Israeli and Palestinian leaders seek to keep a lid on violence, while Washington works to keep them at least focused on Iraq, others here are vowing to keep the fires burning fiercely.
Jerrold Kessel, CNN, Jerusalem.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
