ISRAEL & PALESTINE - Israelis storm Palestinian prison

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Tuesday, 14 March 2006,

13:08 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israelis

storm Palestinian prison

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Palestinian

prison guards surrendering at Jericho's jail

 

 

 

Israeli

troops have taken control of a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho,

destroying its walls with bulldozers and killing a guard.

They are trying to seize militant Ahmed Saadat, blamed for the

assassination of a minister. He refused to surrender.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has blamed the withdrawal of UK and US prison

monitors for the raid.

The Israeli raid in Jericho has sparked a series

of clashes and protests in Gaza, and at least one

kidnap.

·  The International Red Cross has confirmed

that its director in Gaza has been kidnapped.

·  A British cultural centre in Gaza has been

set ablaze and an EU compound stormed.

·  Hundreds of people in Gaza and Jericho

have been demonstrating against the Israeli raid.

·  Palestinian militants from the al-Aqsa

Martyrs' Brigades in Gaza City have warned US and UK

nationals to leave the Palestinian territories immediately.

Reports from Jericho said Mr Saadat, of

the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and several of his

colleagues were refusing to come out of the prison.

Al-Jazeera TV has broadcast a telephone interview with Mr Saadat

in which he says he is in his prison cell and will not surrender.

Mr Saadat is normally guarded by British and US prison warders,

in addition to Palestinian jailers, but they were withdrawn on Tuesday for

what they described as security reasons.

Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the raid and said the US and UK warders were

responsible for the prisoners' safety.

He said the withdrawal of the British and US guards who normally

observe the prison was a grave violation of agreements with the Palestinians.

 

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the PA had ignored

repeated British requests for guarantees regarding the security of the prison

guards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4804424.stm

 

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