SHOTLIST:

Rafah, Gaza Strip - 4 Feb 2002

1. Various shots of men gathered around destroyed car

2. Various parts of car

3. Ambulance standing by

4. Various shots of people collecting body parts from around the car

5. Various shots of surgeons operating on wounded man at hospital in Khan Yunis

Essaweya, East Jerusalem

6. Wide shot of bulldozers inside village

7. Israeli soldiers escorting the bulldozers

8. Palestinians on hillside looking at demolished house

9. Various demolished house, pan to woman standing crying among ruins

10. Israeli border police and Palestinians at ruins

11. Long shot of Palestinians, pan to police on road firing teargas

12. Patrol of Israeli soldiers

Jerusalem

13. Walking shot Danny Ayalon

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Ayalon, Prime Ministerial foreign policy advisor:

"Last night in Gaza a bomb factory -- a mortar factory -- was hit. This was an action of self-defence. Israel has the right, indeed the duty, for self-defence since the palestinians keep the terror. We have the mortars, which is an indiscriminate killer on our community. The terror continues and where the palestinians -- Arafat -- do not prevent it, as they have to by all the agreements and commitments, we must do it."

15. Walking shot Danny Ayalon

STORYLINE:

Four Palestinians were killed Monday in an explosion in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian doctors and witnesses said.

The dead men were discovered in a burned-out car about 600 meters (yards) from the Sufa crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near the town of Rafah.

The dead men were not immediately identified. A fifth man, who was badly wounded, was taken to Nasser Hospital in the nearby town of Khan Yunis.

A Palestinian farmer from the area said he heard an explosion near his land. He said that he found a completely destroyed car, and human body parts were spread about 10 meters (yards) around the car.

Kalashnikov assault rifles were reportedly found near the vehicle.

The Israeli military said it was checking the report.

In East Jerusalem, Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Palestinian neighborhood of Essaweya.

Israel said the homes were demolished because the owners failed to get the proper permits to build them.

Israeli border police and soldiers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd as the demolition took place.

Israel has defended an rocket attack earlier on Monday, in which a goldsmith's workshop in just north of Gaza City was destroyed.

Israel claims the workshop was illegally manufacturing mortar bombs.

Danny Alayon, a foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Arial Sharon, said Israel had a right and a duty to defend itself because the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had failed to prevent terrorism in the Palestinian territories.

SHOTLIST:

Rafah, Gaza Strip - 4 Feb 2002

1. Various shots of men gathered around destroyed car

2. Various parts of car

3. Ambulance standing by

4. Various shots of people collecting body parts from around the car

5. Various shots of surgeons operating on wounded man at hospital in Khan Yunis

Essaweya, East Jerusalem

6. Wide shot of bulldozers inside village

7. Israeli soldiers escorting the bulldozers

8. Palestinians on hillside looking at demolished house

9. Various demolished house, pan to woman standing crying among ruins

10. Israeli border police and Palestinians at ruins

11. Long shot of Palestinians, pan to police on road firing teargas

12. Patrol of Israeli soldiers

Jerusalem

13. Walking shot Danny Ayalon

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Ayalon, Prime Ministerial foreign policy advisor:

"Last night in Gaza a bomb factory -- a mortar factory -- was hit. This was an action of self-defence. Israel has the right, indeed the duty, for self-defence since the palestinians keep the terror. We have the mortars, which is an indiscriminate killer on our community. The terror continues and where the palestinians -- Arafat -- do not prevent it, as they have to by all the agreements and commitments, we must do it."

15. Walking shot Danny Ayalon

STORYLINE:

Four Palestinians were killed Monday in an explosion in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian doctors and witnesses said.

The dead men were discovered in a burned-out car about 600 meters (yards) from the Sufa crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near the town of Rafah.

The dead men were not immediately identified. A fifth man, who was badly wounded, was taken to Nasser Hospital in the nearby town of Khan Yunis.

A Palestinian farmer from the area said he heard an explosion near his land. He said that he found a completely destroyed car, and human body parts were spread about 10 meters (yards) around the car.

Kalashnikov assault rifles were reportedly found near the vehicle.

The Israeli military said it was checking the report.

In East Jerusalem, Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Palestinian neighborhood of Essaweya.

Israel said the homes were demolished because the owners failed to get the proper permits to build them.

Israeli border police and soldiers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd as the demolition took place.

Israel has defended an rocket attack earlier on Monday, in which a goldsmith's workshop in just north of Gaza City was destroyed.

Israel claims the workshop was illegally manufacturing mortar bombs.

Danny Alayon, a foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Arial Sharon, said Israel had a right and a duty to defend itself because the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had failed to prevent terrorism in the Palestinian territories.

SHOTLIST:

1. Various exteriors of World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse

2. Wide interior of aid in sacks in warehouse

3. Various of police holding back people who are charging towards food

4. Women outside waiting

5. Various of men picking up grain bags and walking out

6. Pan as man wheels grain and oil past on trolley

7. Various of people collecting aid in warehouse

8. Queue of people waiting

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Mansour, World Food Programme spokesman

"Many people in the Palestinian territories have lost their jobs. Tens of thousands of people. The agricultural products in the Palestinian territories are unable to proceed either to Israel or to other countries. Poverty has increased. About 50 per cent of the Palestinian population is living under the poverty line, earning less than 2 (US) dollars a day. What we will do over the coming eight months is provide 9000 tonnes of food to those half million people because we are trying to avoid the increasing rates, the alarming increasing rates of malnutrition and hunger among adults and among the children in the Palestinian territories."

10. Various of people carrying sacks out of warehouse

11. Men outside walking away with bags

STORYLINE:

The United Nations food agency has launched an emergency operation to help feed about half a (m) million Palestinians living in deteriorating conditions due to the Mideast conflict.

The World Food Programme plans to provide about 700-thousand tons of food, including flour, rice, sugar and vegetable oil to Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip until the end of the year.

In the last 20 months of conflict, an estimated 180-thousand Palestinians have lost their jobs because of tightened security measures which have severely restricted their movements.

The Palestinian Authority also suffered heavy losses in a recent military operation by Israel which has left it unable to run its social welfare programmes effectively.

Israeli troops entered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip following a series of Palestinian suicide bombings.

The programme will also provide food aid to about 10-thousand people in hospitals and social institutions, including children and the elderly.

According to a World Bank study, up to half of all Palestinians live below the poverty line, earning less than two U-S dollars a day.

The W-F-P says its eight-month operation is still short of food worth about 18 (m) million U-S dollars and an appeal for assistance has been made to donors.

SHOTLIST:

++Night Shots++

1. Various of Rafah skyline with two explosions

2. Various of casualties (unknown if dead or injured) arriving and being taken into hospital on stretchers and gurneys

3. Various of casualty covered in blanket being wheeled into hospital on gurney

4. Pull out of exterior of hospital

5. Relatives gathering outside hospital

6. Ambulance arriving

7. Ambulances bringing casualty into hospital

8. Ambulances and men with stretchers in hospital compound

STORYLINE:

An Israeli helicopter fired three missiles at an unoccupied part of the surrounded Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border early on Tuesday, killing three people.

Hospital officials said at least two were militants, and seven civilians were wounded.

The Israeli military said the target was a group of armed Palestinians approaching Israeli forces.

Israeli bulldozers began levelling land in an Israeli-controlled area next to the camp, shortly after the strike.

Israeli tanks and troops have surrounded the camp, cutting it off from the rest of Gaza.

On Monday, residents were fleeing the camp, expecting a large-scale Israeli operation.

Israel Radio reported that troops were prepared to fight from house to house in the camp.

Israeli forces have entered the camp many times during more than three years of conflict, looking for tunnels they allege the Palestinians use to smuggle in weapons under the Egyptian border.

Last week Palestinians blew up an Israeli armoured vehicle on the border road next to the camp, killing five soldiers, leading Israel to declare that it would widen the buffer zone by tearing down houses in the camp.

SHOTLIST:

1. Various Israeli tanks and soldiers on streets

2. Mid shot Israeli tank firing

3. Wide shot plume of smoke in distance

4. Man being treated in hospital

5. Mid shot woman and boy crying

6. Injured man on hospital bed

7. Dead person being taken out of hospital on stretcher

8. Ambulance outside hospital, injured man being brought in

9. Injured little boy being brought into hospital

10. Boy being treated in hospital

STORYLINE:

Israeli tanks opened fire in the northern West Bank town of Jenin on Friday, killing four Palestinians, including three children in what the Israeli army said appeared to be an error made by soldiers who fired on Palestinians breaking the curfew.

Palestinian residents said they had heard that Israel had lifted the three-day-old curfew, and some witnesses said the market had already become crowded with people replenishing supplies.

Several hours earlier, Palestinian gunmen seized a house in a Jewish West Bank settlement, killing a woman and her three sons before soldiers stormed the house.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened his Security Cabinet of senior ministers on Friday to discuss how to proceed after four days of Palestinian suicide bombings, settlement infiltrations, Israeli military retaliation and other violence that has left 33 Israelis and 12 Palestinians dead. In a major policy shift earlier this week, Israel decided its troops would gradually reoccupy Palestinian until terror stops.

SHOTLIST:

Nightshots

1. Ambulance driving through streets

2. Injured boy being taken out of ambulance

3. Ambulance arriving in hospital

4. Injured youth being stretchered into hospital

5. Injured man being taken into hospital

6. Ambulance

7. Injured man being taken out of ambulance covered in blood

8. Bodies in morgue

9. Close up face of dead man

10. Relatives crowded round morgue

Dayshots

11. Various injured people being taken to ambulance

12. Ambulance reversing

13. Children on streets

14. Masked gunman holding bazooka

STORYLINE:

Israeli forces trying to demolish Palestinian weapon-smuggling tunnels in the Rafah refugee camp, were involved in a fierce gunbattle lasting several hours Friday.

It was the largest army raid in half a year in the camp, a frequent battlefield.

A teenager was among four Palestinians who were killed. A further 38 were wounded.

An Israeli soldier was also injured.

The Israeli raid, which began around midnight on Thursday night, was part of increased military activity in response to last weekend's suicide bombing that killed 20 Israelis in Haifa.

Media reports said the operation could last several days.

Troops have been enforcing a strict travel ban, confining Palestinians in the West Bank to their communities and blocking main roads in the Gaza Strip.

The Rafah raid was aimed at uncovering weapon-smuggling tunnels.

Armoured vehicles and attack helicopters swept into the camp on Gaza's border with Egypt, joined by special forces, including engineering units with dogs trained to find tunnels.

Gun battles erupted between soldiers and Palestinian gunmen and continued until after daybreak on Friday.

Palestinians said most of the casualties were caused when a helicopter fired a missile at a crowd.

The military said the missile targeted a group of gunmen.

Dr. Ali Mousa, director of Rafah's small Najar Hospital, said women and children were among the wounded. He did not have an exact breakdown of armed men and civilians.

Mousa said his hospital was overwhelmed by the large numbers of casualties.

He said many of the wounded required surgery, but that he has only one operating room and did not have enough medicine and other supplies.

Normally, serious cases are sent to hospitals in other towns. Those patients could not be transferred because of the Israeli travel restrictions, Mousa said.

Israeli military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israel had intelligence warnings that Palestinians were planning to use tunnels to smuggle in anti-aircraft missiles - weapons that could have a strategic impact on the three-year conflict.

They said Palestinians were trying to gain possession of shoulder-held Stinger missiles that could shoot down the sort of attack helicopters that Israel often uses in Gaza, and could also threaten Israeli warplanes or civilian aircraft flying close to the coastal strip.

SHOTLIST:

1. Crowd standing by damaged buildings

2. Man sitting on rubble

3. People amongst rubble

4. People watching building being taken down

5. European MEPs walking through wrecked streets

6. European MEPs looking at buildings

7. European MEPs walking

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francis Wurtz, French MEP, Chairman of Delegation

"War crime, it's a war crime. I think it's not possible to be without reaction. We will explain that tomorrow in the European Parliament in Brussels, with the participation of Mr Solana and Commissioner Patten, and every member of the European Parliament. We will explain what we have seen."

9. Various, European MEPs walking

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ray Perry, British MEP

"It's a scene of real devastation isn't it, horrific to see that this has happened. And it's clearly not just shooting, it's systematic destruction of this place."

11. Various, rubble being cleared

12. Pan to human remains

13. Man looking on

14. Remains being sealed in bag

15. Various, people looking on

16. Various, man on pile of rubble examining debris

17. Tilt down to people digging in rubble

STORYLINE:

A delegation of European parliamentarians toured Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday in advance of an anticipated UN fact-finding mission.

The parliamentarians, from both the left and the right, represented ten countries and nine different parties in the European Parliament.

The group, with members from Great Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Germany, France and Italy, spent most of the day touring the camp and talking to residents.

They saw diggers knocking down damaged and unsafe buildings and while there witnessed the body of a young child being dug from the rubble.

The head of the delegation described what had taken place in Jenin as a "war crime".

A colleague, clearly shocked by what he had seen, said that it was a scene of devastation and described what he had witnessed as "horrific".

The UN Security Council on Friday approved a fact-finding mission to Jenin, site of some of the fiercest fighting of Israel's three-week-old offensive in the West Bank.

Palestinians and Arab leaders have accused Israel of a massacre of civilians in the camp, but Israel says the deaths and destruction resulted from gun battles between its soldiers and Palestinian gunmen.