Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Hebron and Ramallah, West Bank and Jerusalem, January 12, 2001
Hebron
1. Various, Israeli soldiers dragging dead man's body across pavement
2. Various of protesters throwing stones
3. Israeli soldiers throwing tear gas grenade
4. Various shots fires burning in street as Palestinians throw stones
Ramallah
5. Demonstration with people marching carrying banners
6. Protesters burning Israeli flag and stamping on it
7. Various of donkey being led through streets draped in Israeli flag and dressed as Jewish worshipper
8. Crowd with clouds of tear gas rising
9. Various of protesters thowing stones and tear gas rising
10. Injured man being loaded into ambulance
11. Ambulance pulling away
Gaza City
12. Set up shot Saeb Erekat, Palestinian top negotiator
13. Cutaway cameraman
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, Palestinian top negotiator
Municipality Square, Jerusalem
15. Wide shot of hunger strike tent
16. Various of meeting in hunger strike tent, with Avraham Burg seated
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Avraham Burg, Israeli chairman of the Knesset
Gaza City
18. Long shot Gaza airport
19. Various of passengers checking in for flights
20. Luggage on conveyor belt
21. Planes on runway
Jerusalem
22. Wide shot drummers and the Old City of Jerusalem
23. Close shot drummers drumming
24. Various of people dancing in circle
English/Nat
XFA
Despite some violence, it was a relatively calm Friday in the Mideast.
Authorities report only scattered clashes - in contrast to previous weeks when Palestinians would often march toward Israeli positions after noon prayers.
In the West Bank town of Hebron, a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli troops during stone-throwing clashes.
The army said that the Palestinian had thrown an explosive at Israeli soldiers who returned fire.
The 23-year-old was killed in the Palestinian-run part of the divided city and an APTN camera crew filmed soldiers dragging his body more than 100 yards through the streets to the Israeli-controlled sector.
The soldiers' commander tried to get his men out of the Palestinian sector as quickly as possible, yelling "run, run."
One of the soldiers clutched the assailant's gun.
Earlier in the day, about one-thousand Palestinians had marched in Hebron in support of demands that Palestinian refugees be given the right to return to former homes in what is now Israel.
"No peace without the return of refugees," one banner read.
The fate of nearly four (M) million refugees and their descendants is a key sticking point in the negotiations.
And in Ramallah, several hundred Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers at a chronic friction point, a traffic circle outside the West Bank town.
For a few minutes, there was an exchange of fire between troops and Palestinian gunmen.
The sporadic violence came hours after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed surprise peace talks.
No progress was reported but more talks may be held over the weekend.
After three hours of negotiations at the Erez checkpoint between Gaza and Israel, Palestinians said it would take a miracle to reach a deal in the eight remaining days of President Bill Clinton's term.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said he was not hopeful that a deal could be worked out in that time.
Despite the Palestinians' pessimism, the chairman of Israel's parliament did not rule out hope of a settlement.
Avraham Burg added that Israeli negotiators were seeking first and foremost an end to violence.
One sign that things were moving forward in the Middle East was the reopening of Gaza airport on Friday after nearly two months of closure.
The reopening came as part of Israel's measures to ease the closure, which was imposed on the Gaza Strip and the West bank following the eruption of the violence almost four months ago.
Hundreds of Palestinians arrived at the airport in early morning to try to leave Gaza.
The development should help to ease the situation.
But any move towards peace must be tempered by the apparent shift to the right of the Israeli electorate with elections just weeks away.
Right wing protesters were on hunger strike in Jerusalem on Friday to protest against the talks with the Palestinians.
The demonstrators called on Prime Minister Ehud Barak to stop any negotiations until after the elections, on February 6.
Peace talks now are not acceptable, they said, especially whilst terrorist attacks are still continuing.
With opinion polls showing massive support for right wing Likud leader Ariel Sharon, who has publicly written off the Oslo accords, such views could soon become enshrined in government policy.
But that attitude is not shared by all Israelis.
Hundreds of drummers from all over the Jewish state gathered in Jerusalem on Friday in a prayer for peace.
The drummers, belonging to the "Drummers For Peace" group, gathered in an area overlooking the Wailing Wall and the Al-Aqsa mosque.
They gathered with other groups to show support for local, national and international peace.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We're trying our best, and we are excerpting maximum efforts, but to be realistic, with such issues, like Jerusalem, refugees, water, I think this issues require so many details, and require detailed maps. So I don't know if it's doable to talk about an agreement before 20th January."
SUPER CAPTION: Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I hope that the contents of the conversation over the negotiations is about one single issue first, and this is a total ceasefire, a total end of violence. Only then, after the violence will drop down dramatically and finally we can resume the peace talks about the constructive solutions, what to be done between the two people."
SUPER CAPTION: Avraham Burg, Israeli chairman of the Knesset