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Ramallah, West Bank - May 1, 2001
1. Gunbattle at City Inn neighbourhood of Ramallah.
2. Various shots of building containing IDF forces under fire from
Palestinian snipers.
3. Jordanian helicopter flying in to pick up Arafat for trip to Amman
4. More of gunbattle
Ramallah, West Bank - May 1, 2001
5. Various of funeral for three people killed Monday night in Ramallah house explosion
6. Bodies of Hassan Al Qady and two children - Shaheed and Malak Barakat being carried through streets
7. Various of funeral procession
8. Various of people looking at the pictures of victims
Ofra, West Bank - May 1, 2001
8. Various of funeral of settler Assaf Hershkovitz, 31, killed
Tuesday morning on road on outskirts of Ramallah
9. Grieving relatives at funeral
Tel Nof, Israel - May 1, 2001
10. Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer visiting airforce
base at Tel Nof
Rafah, Gaza Strip - May 1, 2001
13. Body of Palestinian policeman killed in shootout at Rafah refugee
camp
14. Critically injured woman being treated in hospital
15. Body of dead man being wheeled out
A heavy gun battle erupted in the West Bank town of Ramallah late Tuesday, and witnesses said Israeli troops at one point fired tank shells to disperse Palestinian gunmen.
A building occupied Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) came under fire from Palestinian snipers shooting from the City Inn neighbourhood of Ramallah.
IDF forces countered with heavy gunfire and tank shells.
Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians marched in the funeral procession of the three Palestinians, two of them children, who were killed on Monday night, when an explosion in Ramallah flattened a two-storey building almost directly opposite Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
The funeral of the victims, a four-year-old girl, a boy of seven and a 24 year-old Palestinian gunman of Arafat's Fatah
group, drew thousands to the streets of Ramallah.
Palestinian sources disagreed over whether Israelis or Palestinians had caused the blast.
A Palestinian policeman was killed and a woman civilian critically wounded in a firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen near the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
In Ofra, on the West Bank, a settler killed in his car on the outskirts of Ramallah was buried.
The slain Israeli motorist was identified as Assaf Hershkovitz, 31, a resident of the Jewish settlement of Ofra whose father Arieh was killed in another West Bank drive-by shooting in January.
The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying it was meant to avenge the Palestinians killed in separate blasts Monday.
The renewed violence and mourning came as Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was discussing a new joint Egyptian/Jordanian peace initiave in the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Yasser Arafat is responsible for the escalation in violence, claiming the Palestinian leader has "complete control over events" and is running terror groups.
But as Israel's Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer toured an airforce base at Tel Nof, he came under heavy criticism from Palestinian ministers for - what they claim - are his war-mongering ways.
Palestinian Information Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo accused Ben Eliezer of being a fanatic who only understood the language of war and rejected Palestinian peace overtures like those suggested in the Jordanian/Egyptian initiative.
In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian policeman was killed and a woman civilian critically wounded in a firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen near the Rafah refugee camp.
Elsewhere in Gaza, Palestinians fired two mortar shells at a Jewish settlement, causing no injuries.