MIDDLE EAST

Middle East: West Bank Barrier

In July, the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands ruled that a 685-kilometre long security barrier built by Israel along the length of West Bank was illegal. The court's decision was based on its finding that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian areas occupied by Israel in the 1967 war were a violation of the Geneva Convention, as was occupation of East Jerusalem. But Israel said the ruling would not change its policy on the barrier or the Palestinians. Israel claims the barrier is to protect Israeli citizens from attacks by Palestinian militants such as suicide bombers. The Palestinians, whose lives in some places have been severely disrupted by the complex of high concrete walls, razor-wire fences, trenches and watch towers, said it was like living in "a big prison." In its completed form the barrier is to stretch 730 kilometres, although there have been calls in Israel for the route to be changed to the 1967 border. The Palestinians say that the completed barrier will separate thousands of Palestinians and some 45-thousand Jewish settlers from the main Palestinian areas, by dipping deep into the West Bank. The fence cuts many people off from schools, medical clinics, jobs and agricultural land.

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Abu Dis, West Bank - January

Wide shot of wall between Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem and the village of Abu Dis in the West Bank

Palestinians jumping over wall

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Abu Dis, West Bank - 16 January 2004

Wide shot of wall

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Abu Dis, West Bank - 16 January 2004

Nuns walking by security fence

People clambering through fence

Pull out to wide of fence, graffiti reads "Peace comes by agreement not separation."

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Qalandiya, West Bank - 10 July 2004

Close up minaret through break in concrete barrier pull out to wide shot

Middle East: Gaza Raids

Israeli security forces made raids into the Rafah camp on the border with Egypt in the Gaza Strip to destroy houses and the ruins of a mosque, saying the buildings give cover to gunmen and weapons smugglers. Nine Palestinians were killed in January in fierce fighting with Israeli troops in Gaza City, after the army launched an operation near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, in the heart of the teeming Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants fired anti-tank missiles and set off an explosive at the troops who fired back, the army said. In February, Israeli troops moved into a neighbourhood at the eastern edge of Gaza City, killing four Palestinians and wounding 13 others, residents said. Two of the dead were reported to be militants, including a Hamas leader.

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Netzarim, Gaza Strip - 28 January 2004

Wide shot of Israeli tank driving down street towards camera, rocket is fired, passing just in front of tank, UPSOUND gunfire

Man walking past ambulance carrying rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher

Armed men moving down street, looking for cover from Israeli gunfire

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Gaza City - 11 February 2004

Palestinians beside to burning tyres, UPSOUND gunfire, group scatters, pan to Palestinians behind wall

Palestinian carrying RPG launcher

Middle East: Suicide Attacks

In spite of the security efforts, Palestinian suicide bomb continued to get through to attack Israelis. In mid-January a woman blew herself at the main crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip at Erez, killing at least four Israelis and wounding seven other people. She was identified as Reem Raiyshi, aged 21, a Gaza woman described as a Hamas militant and the first female suicide-bomber from the Islamic militant group. Two weeks later a Palestinian man blew himself up on a bus in the downtown Rehevia district of Jerusalem, killing at least 10 bystanders and wounding about 30 in an attack outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's official residence. At the end of February, a Palestinian blew himself up on a crowded city bus during rush hour in downtown Jerusalem, killing seven people and wounding more than 60 people, 11 of them seriously. In March, Palestinians blew themselves up in Ashdod, a closely guarded Israeli port, killing 10 Israelis in the first deadly attack on a strategic Israeli installation in more than three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

In August, Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses almost simultaneously in the main street of Beersheba in southern Israel, killing 16 people and wounding more than 80 others. The militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for the Israeli assassination of two of Hamas leaders in March. In response, Israeli forces closed off the West Bank city of Hebron and blew up the home of Ahmed Kawasmeh, one of the two Beersheba suicide bombers, and ransacked the house of the other bomber.

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Jerusalem - 22 February 2004

Various shots of emergency crews around damaged bus

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Beersheba - 31 August 2004

Various shots of burned out bus

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Hebron - 1 Sep 2004

Various night shots of Israeli soldiers outside house of Ahmed Kawasmeh

Soldiers escorting people from the house

Old man looking at damage to house

Various shots of destroyed interior of house of second Beersheba bomber

Middle East: Israel and Hamas

Israel used the Palestinian suicide-attacks on Ashdod to justify the assassination of the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas group, Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City in late March. A rocket fired from an Israeli helicopter struck the wheelchair-bound Yassin as he left a mosque near his house at daybreak. Yassin was the most influential Palestinian militant leader to be killed by Israel and Hamas threatened bloody revenge. In a spontaneous outpouring of rage and grief, tens of thousands of Palestinians, led by hundreds of militant gunmen, poured into the streets of Gaza City after hearing of Yassin's death. Yassin had dodged previous Israeli attempts to kill him. His assassination provoked demonstrations across the Muslim world, including Baghdad, Turkey and Palestinian communities in Lebanon.

Yassin's deputy Abdel Aziz Rantisi succeeded the Hamas leadership and vowed there would be no let up in the Hamas campaign against Israel. But Rantisi was killed in late April when two Israeli rockets fired from a helicopter hit his car in the Sheik Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. Rantissi was rushed to the hospital and into emergency surgery, but he died five minutes after arriving. Two of his guards were also killed and five bystanders pedestrians were wounded. Hamas had claimed responsibility for most of the 112 suicide bombings that have killed 465 people on the Israeli side during three and a half years of violence. Hours before Rantisi was killed, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez industrial zone, killing an Israeli border policeman and injuring three other security workers. Thousands of supporters escorted the body of Rantisi down the streets of Gaza at his funeral.

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 16 January 2004

Various shots of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin

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Gaza City - 22 March 2004

Close up pieces of Yassin's wheelchair on ground after the Israeli rocket strike that killed him

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Sidon, southern Lebanon - 23 March 2004

Religious figures marching in procession behind the wheelchair

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Tripoli, northern Lebanon - 23 March 2004

Men dressed in Hamas colours carrying models of rockets and rocket launchers

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Gaza City - Unknown date

Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi at protest march, surrounded by gunmen

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Gaza City - 17 April 2004

Car being lifted and turned over by crowd, men trying to reach inside

Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi being wheeled through hospital corridor crowded with media

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Gaza City - 18 April 2004

Various shots of Hamas supporters carrying the body of Abdel Aziz Rantisi on a stretcher

Middle East: Gaza Raids

In May, Israeli forces reportedly fired tank shells, helicopter missiles and machine-guns at a crowd of thousands of Palestinians demonstrating against an Israeli raid on the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Witnesses and medical workers said at least eight people were killed, two of them children, and 50 people were wounded. The Israelis had launched "Operation Rainbow" in the Rafah camp two days earlier, to hunt down militants and destroying arms-smuggling tunnels that run from Rafah beneath the nearby border. In September, Israeli forces pushed into the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, at Jebaliya near Gaza, after a rocket attack killed two young children in the Israeli border town of Sderot. Twenty-three Palestinians were killed in the attack and at least 108 wounded, the highest single-day Palestinian casualty count in 30 months.

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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 19 May 2004

Various wide aerial shots of Palestinian crowd marching

Israeli helicopter firing overhead

Explosion among crowd, people running away

Injured being carried away from scene

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Ramallah, West Bank - 30 September 2004

SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, Palestinian cabinet minister:

"Violence will breed violence, bullets will breed bullets, hate will generate more of it."

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Jebaliya, Gaza Strip - 30 September 2004

Various shots of Israeli tank positioned on high ground overlooking refugee camp

Various shots of street scenes in Jebaliya, UPSOUND gunfire, people run for cover

Masked Palestinian gunman running along alley, one of them carries cable for explosives

Israel: Vanunu

A defiant Mordecai Vanunu walked out of prison in late April, after serving 18 years for spilling Israel's nuclear secrets, saying he was proud of his actions and complaining he had been treated cruelly by his jailers. Vanunu flashed victory signs and waved to hundreds of cheering supporters as he walked into the courtyard of Shikma Prison in the coastal town of Ashkelon. Dozens of counter-demonstrators booed and shouted epithets. In 1986 Vanunu, a nuclear technician, leaked details and pictures of Israel's alleged nuclear weapons programme to a British newspaper. Based on his account, experts said at the time that Israel had the world's sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Israeli agents abducted Vanunu from Italy before the article was printed and he was convicted of treason in a closed trial. He said he had been kept in solitary confinement for 12 years in an attempt to drive him mad. Vanunu was released subject to is subject to a broad array of speech and travel restrictions. In November after he was arrested again for breaching the restrictions.

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Ashkelon, Israel - 21 April 2004

Mordecai Vanunu walking out of prison with brother Meir (in blue shirt) and waving and making victory sign

SOUNDBITE (English) Mordecai Vanunu, nuclear whistleblower:

"I am proud and happy to do what I did. All the secrets that were published are in the hands of the world, all the world, every state, 180 states received this secret."

Medium close shot of Vanunu

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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have until Wednesday before they have to provide U-S President Bill Clinton with their final decisions on the latest U-S proposal for peace between the two sides.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday that now was the time to make a major push for a Middle East peace deal.

But Palestinians have been more cautious about the proposal, saying key differences remained.

Talks that have taken place between the two sides in Washington over the last week have resulted in a new proposal by the U-S for reaching a settlement.

This focuses on the four major issues of disagreement - Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, borders and the ending of the conflict in the region.

According to the U-S proposal a Palestinian State would be established on 95 percent of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip.

Israel would be sovereign over the remaining five percent of the West Bank which includes Jewish settlement blocs.

Israel, which currently claims sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, would concede control of the Arab neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem to the Palestinians, including most of the walled Old City.

Palestinians would also have control over the disputed Al Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City, an extremely sensitive site sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

Israeli politicians from the right-wing opposition, and even some from within Barak's government, have condemned any concession on the Al Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

A special body would be established to deal with Palestinian refugees who fled or were driven out in past wars.

Most refugees would be settled in the countries where they currently reside Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and some would be absorbed into Palestinian areas.

Only a limited number would be permitted to resettle inside Israel.

Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo, who attended the talks in Washington said that until now there has not been enough flexibility in the Israeli position to encourage the Palestinians to say they're close to reaching an agreement.

Rabbo said that the Palestinians were still considering the U-S proposal.

Yasser Arafat went to discuss the plan with Egyptian president Hossni Mubarak, and Israeli Foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami briefed Barak on the U-S talks on Sunday.

If they see the potential for progress, Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are likely to travel to Washington for talks with Clinton.

According to Ben-Ami, Clinton would then decide whether it was worth convening a Mideast summit.

Time is running short for a deal under Clinton's watch.

He leaves office in four weeks, while Barak faces an uphill battle for re-election as prime minister on February 6.

If a peace deal is negotiated, Barak has said he will consider the election a referendum on the agreement.

But both sides have faced criticism at home over their reported concessions.

Meanwhile, the three months of Middle East violence scared away Christian pilgrims and put a damper on Christmas festivities in Bethlehem, the town of Jesus' birth.

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"Once you give them something they want more, so eventually they'll just take us all, they'll control us all - and that's what they want, they don't want peace."

SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop

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"I think the proposal is good."

SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop

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"We won't accept any proposal that doesn't give us complete guarantees over the implementation of the agreement. For example the presence of international forces to overlook the accurate implementation of an agreement."

SOUNDBITE: Yasser Abed Rabbo, Palestinian negotiator

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"This is totally rejected, because he who lost a son or a family member will not accept such proposal. The issue between us and the Jews is not an issue of land or territory, its an issue of blood."

SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"If the agreement is fine for the interest of the Palestinian people so why not?"

SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop

Jerusalem; Ramallah; Akbat Jaber - 24-25 December, 2000 and File

Jerusalem - File

1. Various aerials views of city

West Jerusalem - 25 December

2. Soldiers standing on street

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop

5. Soldiers standing around in shopping precinct

6. Close-up of newspapers - zooms in to headline reporting the US proposal

7. Various close-ups of articles and graphics showing the proposal

Ramallah - 24 December

8. Set up view of Yasser Abed Rabbo, Palestinian negotiator

9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Yasser Abed Rabbo

East Jerusalem - 25 December

10. People walking along street

11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop

12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop

13. People in street

Akbat Jaber - File

14. Various aerial views of refugee camp outside of Jerusalem

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President Clinton's visit to the Middle East continues to provoke reactions from hardline Palestinians.

Arabs throughout the region have been demonstrating against moves by Yasser Arafat to water down the Palestinian charter as agreed under the Wye Accord.

The Palestinian government-in-exile voted to revoke clauses in the P-L-O charter that calls for the destruction of Israel, under pressure from the United States and Israel.

But extremist Palestinians have accused their leaders of betraying the Palestinian cause.

As U-S President Bill Clinton prepared to address the Palestinian assembly, Israeli troops in the West Bank clashed with young Palestinian demonstrators.

The men were apparently trying to break into the settlement of el Bireh.

At first Palestinian police tried to prevent the Palestinian demonstrators burning tyres as they approached the Jewish settlement.

Israeli troops then blocked their path and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd.

Palestinian police were among the crowd.

Earlier hundreds of Palestinians had taken to the streets of the West Bank to demand the release of the prisoners still held in Israeli gaols.

Under the Wye agreement Israeli troops are to withdraw from a further 13 percent of the West Bank, in return for a Palestinian crackdown on terrorism.

But the deal has faltered, with both sides accusing the other of reneging on the agreed terms.

Israel had promised to release 750 prisoners by the end of January.

Last month, Israel freed 250, but most were common criminals rather than political prisoners.

There is also great mistrust of America.

Many Palestinians accuse the U-S of indirect involvement with Israel's cause.

In Nablus, another West Bank town, demonstrators shouted slogans condemning Clinton.

Clinton's appearance at the specially convened session of the Palestine National Council (P-N-C) was the centre piece of his trip.

But while the politicians debated, the Palestinian people were calling for the vote to be cancelled until the issue of the prisoners was resolved.

The protests have not been confined to the West Bank.

In Palestinian communities throughout the middle East, feelings are running high.

In Jordan, about four-hundred Palestinian refugees gathered to protest changes to the Palestinian charter.

Hard liners, such as these, in Jordan, who were at the forefront of the fight for a Palestinian state, say they feel let down by Yasser Arafat.

Ever since the first peace treaty with Israel in 1993, Palestinian leaders have referred to the clauses in the charter calling for the destruction of the Jewish state as null and void.

Now, on the day of Clinton's visit to Gaza, the National Palestinian Council voted to revoke the clause.

Members of Palestinian refugee groups want to register their anger.

As refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, these people feel particularly betrayed by the move.

Camp council members also believe that it is premature to revoke such a clause until peace has been reached.

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"We don't want the people to think that we are against a just peace, we are against normalisation until peace is justly implemented."

SUPER CAPTION: Sheik Hassan Abyu Dbaah, Baqaa Camp Council

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"We would accept to live in a tent if it meant living in our own country."

SUPER CAPTION: Abdul Majid Shehada, Vox Pop

Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the mood was no different.

Protestors in the southern city of Sidon burned U-S and Israeli flags and criticised the Wye agreement.

They were lambasting Clinton and Netanyahu for their roles in Wye.

They believe Israel has unfairly pressured the Palestine government into changing its historic charter.

And they claim Clinton forced the Palestinians into a humiliating climb down.

They are called their own leaders traitors, shouting slogans against Arafat.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"We, the sons of the Palestinian People, announce our condemnation of the meeting taking place in Gaza today the 14th of December which will be held as a consequence to the American demand and Zionist Presence in order to Nullify our National Palestinian Pact. We announce with power and strictness our refusal to modify or nullify any Paragraph in the National Palestinian Pact, and our support to the Palestinian Popular Convention taking place in Damascus."

SUPER CAPTION: Khaled Younes, Democratic Front for Liberating Palestine (D-F-L-P)

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"They want the rights which is known as the rights for any people. They didn't accept Wye Plantation, they didn't accept the Israeli Occupation, they didn't accept all agreements which didn't give them their simple and well-known rights."

SUPER CAPTION: Abou Ali Hassan, Popular Front For Liberating Palestine, (P-F-L-P)

And in Syria demonstrators shouted "Clinton get out! Palestine will remain free!".

Many of the 15-hundred demonstrators carried banners denouncing Arafat's peace deals with Israel and his plan to revoke calls for Israel's destruction.

These people want to return to an independent Palestine as soon as possible.

But, if their feelings are representative of the whole of the Palestinian people, then it could be some time before the dream of peace in the Middle East is finally realised.

El Bireh, Ramallah and Nablus, West Bank; Amman, Jordan; Sidon, Lebanon; Damascus, Syria - December 14 1998

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El Bireh, West Bank

1. Various of Palestinians throwing stones.

2. Palestinian police trying to stop demonstrators burning tyres

3. Israeli troops fire tear gas and rubber bullets into crowd

4. Israeli troops

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Ramallah, West Bank

5. Wide of women holding pictures of sons, who are prisoners

6. Various close ups of women shouting slogans

7. Wide of students marching

8. Various of banners against Clinton's visit

9. Close up student chanting

10. Students burning flags

Nablus, West Bank

11. Palestinians with pictures of prisoners

12. Close up child chanting

13. Demonstrator with megaphone shouting slogans against Clinton and U-S-A

14. Various of Palestinians shouting slogans

Amman, Jordan

15. Wide shot demonstration

16. People carrying a banner saying "Refugee until I return"

17. Various shots of students shouting slogans

18. Various green flags

19. Various shouting Arafat is a traitor and the Koran is the solution

20. Banner saying "We are all Ahmed Yassin, no to the deportation no for creating a homeland."

21. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Abyu Dbaah, Camps

22. Demonstrators (Soundbite overlaid)

23. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abdul Majid Shehada, Vox Pop

24. Various shots of demonstration

Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp, Sidon

25. Burning American and Israeli Flags

26. Fighters with machine guns and behind them a banner condemning Wye Plantation agreement

27. Masked fighters

28. Fighters with machine guns

29. Close up burning flags

30. People with Palestinian Flag

31. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khaled Younes, Democratic Front for Liberating Palestine (D-F-L-P)

32. Fighters with machine guns stamping American and Israeli flags

33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abou Ali Hassan, Popular Front For Liberating Palestine, (P-F-L-P)

34. Group of fighters with American and Israeli flags before and during setting fire to them

Damascus, Syria

35. Pull out from flags to wide of crowd

36. Pan of crowd of demonstrators

37. Pull out from flag

38. Side shot of man addressing rally

39. Protestors in street

40. Boy on man's shoulders waving flag

41. Burning Israeli flag

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News of Ariel Sharon's election victory was met largely with indifference in the Arab world, though many also viewed it as the last rite for the troubled peace process.

After 52 years of wars, a decade of frustrating peace efforts and months of deadly Palestinian-Israeli clashes, many Arabs have given up hope any Israeli leader will give Palestinians rights and land considered their due.

Sporadic battles between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers erupted in the West Bank town of Hebron on Wednesday following the election.

Israeli soldiers fired tear gas at Palestinian youths who retaliated by throwing rocks.

It's the first violence in the West Bank since the election of Mr. Sharon on Tuesday.

Gun battles also broke out between suspected militant Palestinians and Israeli soldiers after the homes of Israeli settlers were fired on.

Homes in the isolated Jewish neighbourhood of Tel Romeide in the heart of Hebron came under fire.

Israeli Defence Force sources said the hostile fire on Tel Romeide was reported to have come from the adjoining Arab neighbourhood of Jebel Abu-Sneina in Hebron.

Around five hundred settlers live in Hebron, surrounded by an estimated 130-thousand Palestinians.

During the clashes the Israeli army also shelled a local building.

In Gaza, Palestinian Minister of Planning and top negotiator Nabil Shaath said on Wednesday that nobody from Ariel Sharon's office had contacted the Palestinian authorities, and leader Yasser Arafat was still waiting for a telephone call.

Palestinians hope the peace process will continue under the right wing leadership of Sharon, Shaath said, and talks between Israelis and Palestinians will not stop.

Shaath spoke in Gaza, after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met American diplomats and to discuss the future of the relationship between Israel and the Palestinian authority under Sharon's leadership.

Meanwhile, Egypt reacted cautiously to Ariel Sharon's election victory on Wednesday.

The country has been at chilly peace with Israel since 1979.

Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said they would have to wait and see what direction Sharon would take in relation to the Middle East peace process.

Palestinian refugees in camps in Lebanon voiced their anger on Wednesday after the election of Ariel Sharon as Israel's Prime Minister.

Sharon is vilified by those who live in the camps.

In 1982, as defence minister, he engineered Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

It was portrayed as a quick, limited strike to drive Palestinian fighters from Israel's northern border.

However, Israeli troops advanced to the outskirts of Beirut and war escalated.

Israeli-allied Christian militia killed hundreds of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in west Beirut, sparking international outrage.

At Wednesday's protests, demonstrators burned effigies of Sharon and chanted anti-Israeli slogans.

Inmates of the camps, some of whom have lived in them since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, demand the right of return to their former homes in what is now Israel.

Successive Israeli governments have denied them this.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

" Not yet, there has not yet been any direct contact between the two. President Arafat has talked to Mr Powell. "

Q: Reporter asking Shaath if there has been any contact between Arafat and Sharon?

" Not yet, no not yet."

SUPER CAPTION: Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Minister of Planning and Co-operation

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"Look, if we judge him on his previous statements and his policies and his actions I think we would be very pessimistic towards the peace process. We have to wait a little bit to hear what he will say as a Prime Minister and not as an opposition leader or leader of any party. If the logical start is to build on what has been achieved then there will be peace which can be activated but if his policy is to destroy whilst peace has been agreed upon then there will be pessimism and frustration and that will very serious indeed. "

SUPER CAPTION: Amr Moussa, Egyptian Foreign Minister

Various- 7 February 2001

Hebron, West Bank

1. Soldiers next to jeep firing tear gas at Palestinian stone throwers

2. Soldier next to jeep fire tear gas

3. Israeli settler in the street talking to soldier

4. Soldier firing automatic weapon from behind fortified lookout

5. Building being hit by automatic weapons fire

6. Soldier firing rifle from lookout

7. Buildings being hit by shells

Gaza

8. Various shots of Yasser Arafat meeting American diplomats

9. Close up of Palestinian police

10. Arafat shaking hands with the diplomats as they leave Arafat's office building

11. Various of Arafat meeting diplomats outside Arafat's office building

12. Set up shot Nabil Shaath

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil Shaath Palestinian Minister of Planning and Co-operation

14. Shaath walking away

Cairo, Egypt

15. Egyptian President Mubarak and Amr Moussa, Egyptian Foreign Minister, arriving and walking off plane

16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Amr Moussa, Egyptian Foreign Minister

Ein El Heloueh refugee camp, South Lebanon

17. Various of Palestinian refugees demonstrating

18. Demonstrators carrying anti-Sharon and anti-Israeli banners and shouting anti-Sharon slogans

19. Demonstrators carrying pictures of Arafat and Palestinian flags

20. Demonstrators burning effigy of Israeli President Elect Ariel Sharon

21. Demonstrators shouting against Sharon

22. Various of soldiers in camp

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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

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

HEADLINE: Documents show Palestinian Jerusalem offer

CAPTION: Palestinians were prepared to compromise over two of the toughest issues, Jerusalem and refugees, during peace talks in 2008, the Al-Jazeera TV channel reported Sunday, quoting from documents it said came from the talks. (Jan. 24)

(nats of protests)

PROTESTORS BURN AN ISRAELI FLAG OUTSIDE THE WEST BANK OFFICES OF THE AL-JAZEERA TELEVISION NETWORK. THEY'RE UPSET FOLLOWING AL-JAZEERA REPORTS THAT PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS WERE READY TO COMPROMISE ON TWO KEY ISSUES WITH ISRAEL.

AL JAZEERA SAYS IT OBTAINED DOCUMENTS FROM 2008 PEACE TALKS. BUT THE CURRENT AND PAST CHIEF PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATORS SAY MANY PARTS OF THE DOCUMENTS WERE FAKED.

(Arabic/ Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:

"What is meant is to mix things up. I have seen what the TV channel broadcast, I say here expressly that we have nothing to hide. This is what all the Arab countries, altogether and unilaterally, know. In all our negotiations and meetings regarding any issue that we discuss, we submit it all to the Arab countries, backed up by documents. Thus things have been mixed up between Israeli proposals, which are various, and Palestinian positions, that happens intentionally and it is really shameful.")

PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS SAYS THE PALESTINIANS HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. HE SAYS THE PALESTINIANS HAVE ADVISED OTHER ARAB NATIONS OF THEIR DEMANDS IN PEACE TALKS WITH ISRAEL. ABBAS GOES ON TO SAY THAT DETAILS OF THE ISRAELI PROPOSALS AND PALESTINIAN POSITIONS WERE MIXED UP.

AL-JAZEERA REPORTED THE PALESTINIANS OFFERED TO LET ISRAEL KEEP ALL BUT ONE JEWISH ENCLAVES IN EAST JERUSALEM. THE PALESTINIANS WANTED ISRAELI LAND IN RETURN. THE PALESTINIANS REPORTEDLY AGREED THAT ISRAEL WOULD TAKE 100-THOUSAND REFUGEES--DOWN FROM THE SEVERAL MILLION THAT PALESTINIANS SAY HAVE A RIGHT TO RETURN TO ISRAEL.

(Arabic/ Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman:

"This confirms that the Palestinian Authority is giving up the rights of the Palestinian people, especially their rights in Jerusalem. And this is a proof that the PA is misleading the public, therefore this scandal requires from Abu Mazen and Erekat to resign.")

THIS HAMAS SPOKESMAN SAYS THE AL JAZEERA REPORT CONFIRMS THAT THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IS GIVING UP THE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. THE MILITANT HAMAS PARTY OPPOSES ABBAS' FATAH PARTY.

THEN ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, EHUD OLMERT, HAS SAID HE OFFERED THE PALESTINIANS A STATE IN THE GAZA STRIP AND ABOUT 95 PERCENT OF THE WEST BANK, WITH TERRITORIAL SWAPS.

(sot: Arie Eldad, Israeli Knesset member)

"This is not a territorial conflict, in a territorial conflict you can solve by division of the land, partition of the land, but if the conflict is a religious war, ideological clash, you don't cure it by division of the land and that's the true nature of the conflict."

AL-JAZEERA CLAIMS IT HAS 16-HUNDRED LEAKED DOCUMENTS FROM PEACE TALKS OVER THE PAST DECADE. THE NETWORK SAYS THE REPORT IT AIRED SUNDAY WAS THE FIRST OF FOUR.

APTN STORY NUMBER: 673012

SHOTLIST:

AP TELEVISION NEWS

Ramallah, West Bank - 24 January 2011

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1. Zoom out from Al-Jazeera bureau in Ramallah to protesters

2. Protesters burning Israeli flag with "Al-Jazeera" written inside it

3. Tilt up of graffiti on ground

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4. Mid of lift inside Al-Jazeera office building with graffiti sprayed on it, pan to more graffiti with Star of David on wall

5. Tilt up from debris on ground to security officials inside hallway

6. Pan of broken glass on stairs

AP TELEVISON

Cairo, Egypt - 24 January, 2011

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7. Wide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, zoom in to Abbas, pan to Mubarak

8. Wide of Abbas arriving at news conference

9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:

"What is meant is to mix things up. I have seen what the TV channel (Al-Jazeera) broadcast, I say here expressly that we have nothing to hide. This is what all the Arab countries, altogether and unilaterally, know. In all our negotiations and meetings regarding any issue that we discuss, we submit it all to the Arab countries, backed up by documents. Thus things have been mixed up between Israeli proposals, which are various, and Palestinian positions, that happens intentionally and it is really shameful."

10. Abbas leaving news conference

AP TELEVISION NEWS

Ramallah, West Bank - 24 January 2011

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11. Mid of Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary-General Yasser Abd Rabbo entering room

12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Abed Rabbo, Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary-General:

"Talks are talks and dialogue is dialogue, but don't get mixed up between this and the serious political positions, I don't want to go in all the media games that happened yesterday, to trick and mislead the simple citizen or to mislead the political experts because they well understand these tricks."

13. Wide of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Riad al-Malki, Palestinian Authority's Foreign Minister:

"I wonder what is really the purpose of this leak, the timing of it, and really the intensions."

AP TELEVISON

Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 24 January 2011

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15. Set up shot of Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum

16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman:

"This confirms that the Palestinian Authority is giving up the rights of the Palestinian people, especially their rights in Jerusalem. And this is a proof that the PA (Palestinian Authority) is misleading the public, therefore this scandal requires from Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) and Erekat (the current chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat) to resign."

POOL

FILE: Annapolis, Maryland, US - 27 November 2007

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17. Various of then US President George W Bush, Abbas and then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert standing together linking hands as Olmert and Abbas then shake hands at the US-hosted Middle East peace conference

AP TELEVISON

FILE: Jerusalem - 27 December 2007

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18. Zoom out from Abbas and Olmert posing for photograph with then Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni (far right) and then chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia

19. Various of meeting

AP TELEVISION NEWS

Jerusalem - 24 January 2011

20. Set up shot of Mahdi Abdul Hadi, founder and Head of the Palestinian Academic Society for the study of International Affairs

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Founder and Head of the Palestinian Academic Society for the study of International Affairs:

"I think this is the last bullet on the peace process and the negotiations. You will not find after this bullet Palestinian and Israelis sitting and negotiating."

AP TELEVISON

Jerusalem - 24 January, 2011

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22. Set up shot of Israeli Knesset member for the National Union Alliance Aryeh Eldad

23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Aryeh Eldad, Israeli Knesset Member for the National Union Alliance:

"This is not a territorial conflict, in a territorial conflict you can solve by division of the land, partition of the land, but if the conflict is a religious war, ideological clash, you don't cure it by division of the land and that's the true nature of the conflict."

AP TELEVISION NEWS

Jerusalem - 24 January 2011

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24. Wide of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque

25. Wide of Jerusalem's old city

AP TELEVISON

FILE - Sheik Jarrah, East Jerusalem - 25 March 2010

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26. Sign reading "Sheik Jarrah"

27. Pull out from Israeli flag over house formerly occupied by Palestinians and now occupied by Jewish settlers

28. Palestinian woman in yard of another house

SHOTLIST:

Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip

1. Zoom in on bulldozer knocking down house

2. Tank UPSOUND: gunfire

3. Bulldozer driving UPSOUND: gunfire

4. Women shouting at bulldozers to stop

5. Wide bulldozer and women, tear gas exploding

Near Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip

6. People running and ducking, horse riding past ambulance UPSOUND: gunfire

7. People ducking UPSOUND: gunfire

Near Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip

8. Injured man being put in back of ambulance UPSOUND: gunfire

Shifa hospital, Gaza Strip

9. Wounded man in hospital

10. Dead youth being carried on stretcher

Gaza City, Gaza Strip

11. Wide body of 22 year old Hamas militant being carried towards ambulance by funeral procession

12. Body being put in back of ambulance

13. Close up face of dead alleged Hamas militant

14. Funeral procession carrying body around corner

15. Body of 14 year old youth killed on Wednesday being carried along funeral procession

Ramallah, West Bank

16. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat meeting Canadian representative to the Palestinian authority, Ron Wilson

17. Arafat and Ron Wilson zoom in to Arafat, pan to Wilson pull out to both

18. Set up shot of Spokesman for Yasser Arafat, Nabil Abu Rdeineh

19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil Abu Rdeineh, Yasser Arafat's spokesman

"This Israeli escalation in Gaza and the West Bank is a dangerous step by the Israeli government aiming to sabotage all the efforts carried out to safeguard the peace process. This continuous Israeli escalation is dangerous and we urge the quartet to stop this escalation."

Nablus, West Bank

20. Wide shot funeral procession for Majdi Halifa, a member of al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

21. Close up Halifa's body being carried

23. Various wide shots funeral procession for Halifa

24. Gunman firing into the air

25. Wide shot procession for Halifa

Jenin, West Bank

26. Rubble and debris from demolition

27. Palestinians walking through rubble

28. Boy walking through rubble

29. High shot boy walking through rubble

30. Palestinian boys running

31. Objects being thrown at Israeli tanks

32. Tanks driving through city

STORYLINE

A large force of Israeli tanks, armoured vehicles and troops pushed into northern Gaza in an overnight raid aimed at rooting out militants who have fired rockets against nearby Israeli towns.

The incursion, which continued on Wednesday, killed at least three Palestinians, Palestinian sources said.

About 110 Israeli vehicles swarmed throughout a swath of northern Gaza that militants have allegedly used as a staging ground for rocket attacks on Israel in recent days, witnesses said.

In the town of Beit Hanoun, troops sealed off roads and bulldozers were seen destroying houses.

Militants engaged in clashes with Israeli troops in northern Gaza, who fired shells and machine guns from tanks and helicopters.

Overnight, Palestinian gunmen took up positions to fight the Israelis, witnesses said.

A 22-year-old Hamas militant, Tawfik Ali Charafi, was killed during the clashes with Israeli forces, near the Jebaliya refugee camp, they said.

Early on Wednesday, two other Palestinians, both wearing school uniforms, were shot and killed by Israeli forces near the camp, Palestinians said.

They said 10 other Palestinians aged 12 to 21 had been wounded by Israeli forces after they threw stones at Israeli jeeps and armoured vehicles.

Funerals for Charafi and the other dead Palestinians were later held in Gaza city.

The Israeli military said it launched an airstrike against three alleged militants preparing to launch a rocket from an area east Jebaliya later on Wednesday.

At least one of the militants was hit, the Israeli military said.

Elsewhere, the Israeli army demolished a home believed to be that of Zakariye Zubeydi, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader in the West Bank town of Jenin.

Zakariye Zubeydi was not arrested, but officials did detain a man thought to be his aide, witnesses said.

While tanks were in the city, children ran after them throwing stones.

Meanwhile hundreds of Palestinians attended the funeral for Majdi Haifa, a member of al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Haifa was killed early on Wednesday as he fled Israeli troops who had come to arrest him, the army said.

Speaking in Ramallah, Arafat's spokesman Abu Rdeineh condemned the Gaza incursion and the escalation of violence throughout Gaza and the West Bank.

He called members of the Quartet - the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations - to help stop the violence in order to safeguard the peace process.

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.

Arabic/Nat

XFA

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said on Thursday that he hopes the peace talks with Israel will continue and an agreement will be achieved between the two sides.

Arafat spoke after returning to Gaza from Cairo, where he met yesterday with Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami.

Ben-Ami was already in Cairo Wednesday when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak suggested that he see Arafat there.

Arafat flew to Cairo and they met there for two hours.

Both sides said after the meeting that they were considering the prospects of reaching a new agreement.

The Palestinians, disappointed by American President Bill Clinton's proposal, are still hoping to hear new ideas from the Israelis.

Martin Indyk, the U-S ambassador in Israel, expressed his disappointment on Thursday regarding the Palestinian reaction to the American proposal.

Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Indyk called it a shame that Palestinian leaders and spokesmen have not been able to stand before their people and ask them to stop the violence.

Indyk said that the Americans expected Arafat to try to convince his people that even though he understands their anger, the peace proposal served their interests and met their objectives in the peace process.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, Palestinians held a march in support of the executing of fellow Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel.

Dozens of armed and masked Fatah members led the march that started at Manger Square in the city.

The marchers chanted "Death to Collaborators" and called on the Palestinian authority to execute all Palestinians held in prisons for collaborating with Israel.

At least six Palestinians have been killed as suspected collaborators, two of them were executed by Palestinian police.

In Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, hundreds of Palestinians held a rally to protest the idea of resettling Palestinian refugees in foreign countries such as Canada and Australia.

Masked men marched in the streets of the refugee camp, shooting in the air and chanting against the settling of refugees outside Israel.

The issue of the Palestinian refugees is one of the main key issues in the Palestinian Israeli ongoing conflict.

Clinton's proposals suggested that the Palestinians receive sovereignty over Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, as well as a disputed holy site sacred to both Muslims and Jews, where the Al Aqsa Mosque compound sits atop the ruins of the biblical Jewish Temples.

In return, the Palestinians would scale back their demand that all refugees and their descendants, about 4 million people, have the right to move back to their old homes in Israel, a country of 5 million Jews.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said he would never agree to the "right of return" for the Palestinian refugees.

Paying the ultimate tribute, Yasser Arafat helped carry the coffin of his protege, the Palestinian TV chief, Hisham Mikki, who was gunned down by masked men in a Gaza City hotel.

The Palestinian Authority said in a statement that Mikki was a "martyr" and that he was killed by traitors and collaborators - language that would suggest an Israeli role.

But in a leaflet sent to news agencies in Jerusalem, a group calling itself the Brigade of Al Aqsa Martyrs claimed responsibility for the killing.

"The failure (of Arafat) ... to punish corrupt people has forced us to carry out the assassination of Hisham Mikki," the leaflet said.

On Wednesday night, Arafat had a surprise meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami in Cairo.

Speaking for the first time since his surprise meeting, Arafat told reporters the two sides had agreed to talk further and return to Taba an Egyptian resort on the border with Israel, where negotiations that led to the second interim peace accord of 1995 took place.

The first Israeli-Palestinian agreement was in 1993.

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"Of course we're still committed to what we agreed in Sharm El Sheik. And we hope that the Israeli side would also keep the same commitment which is the full strict implementation of the agreements of Sharm El Sheik one and two."

SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"Its a shame that Palestinian leaders and spokesmen have not been able to stand in front of their people and say - wait a minute, we understand your anger, but something has been proposed here that serves Palestinian interest and meets Palestinian objectives in the peace process"

SUPER CAPTION: Martin Indyk, US ambassador in Israel

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"Even if my brother was a traitor, I wouldn't spare his life. I would kill him myself. Traitors don't only harm their own families, they harm the whole nation. That's why they should be executed."

SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)

"We agreed to continue the negotiations which we agreed upon and we suggested to Ben Ami to return one more time, for instance, to Taba where we were able, if you remember, to reach important solutions with (former Israeli Prime Minister) Rabin and Peres and he said he would think about it. Meanwhile we told them that the efforts should continue to reach the implementation of what was agreed upon in Sharm el Sheikh One and Sharm el Sheikh Two."

SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader

Various, Israel and Palestinian territories and Cairo, Egypt - 18 January, 2001Gaza 1. Long shot of Yasser Arafat's convoy - Arafat approaching reporters 2. Arafat and followers marching3. Camera man4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader Jerusalem 5. Long shot of Martin Indyk entering room 6. Cutaway 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Martin Indyk, US ambassador in IsraelBalata, near Nablus 8. Long shot of Palestinian rally 9. Various of protesters burning effigy of John Manley, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister 10. Close up of placard11. Masked men shoot guns in airBethlehem 13. Wide shot of march14. Close up on armed masked men15. Back shot of armed men16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox Pop17. Wide shot of men with guns in airGaza18. Various of Arafat at funeral of head of Palestinian Television Hisham MikkiCairo - Mute 19. Meeting between Yasser Arafat and Hosni Mubarak 20. Arafat walks to podium22. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian LeaderJerusalem - File21. Aerial shot of Jerusalem

SHOTLIST:

Beirut

1. Exterior of hotel where security meeting is being held

2. Police outside venue

3. Mid shot of police

4. Various of ministers arriving

5. Various of opening session

6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Nayef Ben Abdel Aziz, Saudi Interior minister:

"The fight against terrorism requires constant consultation and coordination between countries. What must not be forgotten is the distinction between terrorism and legal struggle in defence of land."

7. Cutaway

8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Nayef Ben Abdel Aziz, Saudi Interior minister:

"We are following what's happening in the Palestinian occupied territories - the horrible and anti-human acts of Israeli terrorism against the unarmed Palestinian people. The Israeli war machine kills fathers, throws women out of their homes, destroys houses and kills innocent civilians while the whole world stands by and watches. This makes us wonder - if the Israeli acts aren't terrorism - what is terrorism?"

9. Various of people attending summit

10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Elias Murr, Lebanese Interior minister:

"How can we make peace in the region when Israel is exercising the worst kind of terrorism - bloodshed, terrorizing innocents and terrorizing the minds. Killing innocent women and children. The Israeli government is killing Arab civilians, destroying people's houses and occupying Arab land. It destroys whatever it wants wherever it wants."

11. Various of meeting

12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ahmed Saeed Tamimi, Palestinian vice Interior minister:

"It isn't strange that the Israeli's hinder (Palestinian Interior minister) Freiha Abu Mideen from attending the summit because they are even keeping Abu Amar (Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat) prisoner. So it is not strange because, if they refuse the leader of the Palestinians free movement, they can do anything. These are typical Israeli acts and this is how the Israeli government deals with the Palestinians."

13. Cutaway press

14. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ahmed Saeed Tamimi, Palestinian vice Interior minister:

"This meeting must - there is a need - provide stability in the region."

Ein El Helweh, Southern Lebanon

15. Various Palestinian protest in Ein El Helweh Palestinian camp

16. Palestinian refugees holding anti-Sharon banners

17. Pan of protest

STORYLINE:

Arab interior ministers met in Beirut on Tuesday for the annual Arab League Summit - where they are due to discuss a range of issues from regional security policy, drug trafficking and the fight against terrorism.

But the first day of the meeting showed the difficulties in defining terrorism - as ministers from Saudi Arabia and Lebanon criticised Israeli government actions against the Palestinians.

At the opening session, the Saudi Interior minister questioned why Israeli actions in the occupied territories aren't considered terrorism.

Nayef Ben Abdel Aziz added: "The whole world stands by and watches."

His comments were re-iterated by the Lebanese Interior Minister, Elias Murr.

Murr said a peace agreement could not be reached between Israel and the Palestinians, because "Israel is exercising the worst kind of terrorism - bloodshed, terrorizing innocents and terrorizing people's minds."

Delegates from 17 Arab countries are attending the meeting.

Meanwhile in Ein El Helweh Palestinian camp - the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon - Palestinians called on the Arab interior ministers meeting in Beirut to stop Israeli aggression.

SHOTLIST:

Khan Younis, Gaza

1. Khan Younis governor's office

2. Various of militants with guns on balcony of governor's office

3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Masked and armed militant (requested anonymity):

"We want the president (Yasser Arafat) to provide shelter to our children and women in Al-Namsawi district (of Khan Younis). And we are steadfast in Al Namsawi district, God willing."

4. Various of armed militants in stairwell

5. Various of armed militants on balcony

6. Crowd looking at building from below

Jerusalem

7. Israeli prime minister's office

8. Israeli cabinet ministers sitting at table with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, zoom in to Sharon opening meeting

9. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ariel Sharon, Israeli prime minister:

"On Friday, the whole world was shocked by the terrible terror massacre that took place in Russia. Again it was proven that terror does not distinguish between blood, between adults and children. Israel, which has been fighting terror for years, is standing beside the Russian people and is sending the Russian people its condolences."

10. Various of cabinet meeting

STORYLINE:

Palestinian gunmen on Sunday seized the local government offices in the southern city of Khan Younis, demanding that the Palestinian Authority do more to assist families left homeless by an Israeli military operation last week, witnesses said.

It was the latest case of violence directed toward Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which has been widely accused of corruption and ineffectiveness.

About 15 gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militant group with loose ties to Arafat's Fatah movement, seized the governor's office in Khan Younis early in the day and expelled most of the 22 workers in the building, witnesses said.

Israeli troops destroyed two apartment buildings in Khan Younis last Thursday, leaving 40 families homeless, Palestinian residents said.

The army said the buildings had been used for cover by militants and were largely uninhabited.

One of the gunmen told The Associated Press that the militants were not seeking anything for themselves, only help for the displaced families.

The Khan Younis governor, who was not in the office at the time, was negotiating with the militants over the phone, the gunman said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In recent weeks, there has been a series of kidnappings, shootings, and other attacks against members of the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened his cabinet for its weekly meeting Sunday, opening it by sending his condolences to Russia in the wake of the school siege that left hundreds of people dead.

Sharon said the attack in southern Russia was an example of the terrorism which Israel has been battling for years.

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 :

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

STORYLINE:

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.

SHOTLIST:

Bethlehem, Dehaishe Refugee Camp

1. Various of people celebrating in the street

2. Gunmen firing in the air

Uknown location/date

3. Video released by suicide bomber before the attack

Bethlehem, Dehaishe Refugee Camp

4. People distributing the sweets

5. Suicide bomber's mother crying

6. Various of interior of suicide family home, relatives crying

7. Shot of photograph of suicide bomber

Jerusalem

8. Set up shot of Palestinian Minister Ziad Abu Ziad

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ziad Abu Ziad, Palestinian Minister

"Unfortunately Israel did not understand from its experience in the past that these attacks against the Palestinians will not put an end to the violence, on the contrary they will produce more violence. I'm afraid that the current attack against the Palestinians - especially if any political or physical harm comes to President Arafat - will produce to a wave of violence that nobody knows where it will lead."

Jerusalem

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Binyamin Netanyahu, Former Israeli Prime Minister

"With a regime like that, committed to Israel's destruction, practising terrorism, we are never going to have an end to terrorism and a beginning to peace. So I would put Mr Arafat and his coterie on the ship that he had bought from Iran loaded with weapons. I would put him now on that ship, put him on the high seas, let him go to his friends, Mr Gaddafi in Tripoli or to his other friend in Baghdad Saddam Hussein. But we have to get him out of here and allow a new leadership to emerge with the Palestinians with whom we can make genuine peace."

Bethlehem, Dehaishe Refugee Camp

11. Various of Palestinians marching

12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas leader

"This is part of the cycle of crimes committed by the army of occupation which are committed by the Zionist's enemy against our people. And they think these incursions will deter our people from confronting them."

13. Various of march

STORYLINE:

Palestinians in the Deheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem took to the streets on Friday in support of an 18-year-old Palestinian girl who blew herself up at the entrance of a Jerusalem supermarket.

Aayat Mohammed al-Akhras killed herself and two Israeli civilians, and wounded at least 19 shoppers.

The Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia linked to Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility.

At the family home, relatives gathered to mourn her death.

Earlier the girl released a pre-recorded video announcing her decision carry out the attack.

Palestinian Minister Ziad Abu Ziad warned increased Israeli attacks against the Palestinians could only lead to even more bloodshed.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who plans to challenge Sharon for the Likud Party leadership, has called on Israel to expel Arafat and retake the Palestinian territories.

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:

Ramallah, West Bank - 16 Mar 2002

1. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat outside of Yasser Arafat's headquarters

2. US envoy Anthony Zinni's convoy arrives

3. Security officer standing outside of headquarters

3. Zinni shaking hands with Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat

4. Cameramen outside of headquarters

Ramallah, West Bank - 16 Mar 2002

5. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat enters room and shakes hands with US Envoy Anthony Zinni

6. Exterior of headquarters with cameramen

7. Various of Erekat and Palestinian negotiators sitting with Zinni

8. Security standing outside of headquarters

Ramallah, West Bank - 16 March 2002

12. Saeb Erekat emerges from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian headquarters

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, Senior Palestinian negotiator:

"Let me say that General Zinni is exerting every possible effort. At this stage, he is pursuing bilateral Israeli-American talks with bilateral Palestinian-Israeli talks. Our understanding is that he wants to proceed with to tracks - two parallel tracks, one political, one security. Because here we have to have the linkage between Tenet and Mitchell on the political horizon - meaning ending Israeli occupation. We need during the implementation of Tenet and Mitchell to have a time-line, mechanisms with monitors on the ground. It's premature to jump to conclusions at this stage. We are having in-depth talks with General Zinni. He is exerting maximum efforts with both sides and we hope that above anything else, the Israeli army will complete the withdrawal from all areas re-occupied - especially in area 'S'."

14. Erekat leaves building and gets into car

Tel Aviv, Israel - 16 Mar 2002

15. Shimon Peres enters hall

16. Wide shot of Peres speaking

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Peres, Israeli Foreign Minister:

"We don't want to harass, clearly not to end, the existence and the functions of the Palestinian Authority and its elected chairman. And we are taking the whole opportunity as seriously and profoundly as we may."

Ramallah, West Bank - 16 Mar 2002

Night shots

18. Arafat walking through the streets of al-Amari refugee camp

19. Various of Arafat comforting grieving relatives

20. Arafat being greeted by supporters

STORYLINE:

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office has moved to retract an announcement that Sharon would meet Palestinian leaders on Sunday with the intention of declaring a cease-fire.

The surprise announcement came after the US peace envoy Anthony Zinni held separate meetings with Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

But an hour later Sharon's office said in a second statement that it had only agreed Zinni would continue with his efforts to cement a cesaefire.

Zinni shuttled between the Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Saturday, trying to bring the two sides together for face-to-face talks on a cease-fire that would halt nearly 18 months of Mideast violence.

Zinni met Yasser Arafat at his West Bank headquarters in the town of Ramallah, and then held five hours of talks with the Palestinian leader's top aides including Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.

Erekat said that General Zinni was exerting maximum efforts with both sides.

Arafat was cheered on by crowds of supporters as he left his West Bank residence on a rare excursion out of his headquarters on Saturday evening.

Arafat visited al-Amari refugee camp where he comforted the relatives of many of those killed during the latest Israeli incursions into Ramallah.

VOICED BY: VERA FRANKL

SHOTLIST:

Dir Al Balah, Gaza Strip

0.00 - Ambulance arriving at hospital

0.12 - Wounded man on stretcher being taken out

Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip

0.22 - Boy retrieving book from rubble

0.26 - Men and boys looking at rubble

0.29 - Tilt down from damaged mosque to show rubble

0.33 - Oan from destroyed apartments to show people sifting through rubble

0.40 - Boys sifting through rubble

0.43 - Various men and boys sifting through rubble

Jerusalem

0.50 - SOUNDBITE: (English) Sharon Feingold, IDF spokeswoman:

"We will continue with our operations, both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank in order to send a clear message to the Palestinians, and those who are not involved in terrorism, that terrorism bears a price."

Ramallah, West Bank

1.02 - Various Arafat in meeting

1.13 - SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator:

"We urge President Bush to take two seconds off the focus on Iraq and to come out and condemn the killing of Moha Sweidan, the thirty three year old Palestinian woman, nine months into her pregnancy."

Nablus, West Bank

1.28 - Israeli troops conducting house to house search

1.40 - Tanks with smoke

1.44 - Tanks moving

1.51 - VISION ENDS

STORYLINE:

Israeli troops raiding a Gaza refugee camp arrested a Hamas founder on Monday.

The army's targeting the political leadership of the Islamic militant group for the first time in 29 months of fighting.

Eight Palestinians, among them a pregnant woman, were killed in clashes in the camp.

VOICE-OVER:

0.00

UPSOUND: Ambulance

0.03:

The aftermath of the second consecutive, but fiercer, overnight incursion into Gaza.

0.08:

Some of the wounded lay in the streets for hours before being taken to hospital.

0.14:

Eight Palestinians lost their lives after clashes in two refugee camps.

0.18:

Among them a heavily-pregnant woman carrying a nine-month old baby.

0.22:

Devastation here in the Bureij refugee camp.

0.25:

Israeli troops blew up four homes.

0.28:

The blasts also damaged neighbouring houses and a mosque.

0.32:

One of the homes belonged to Mohammed Taha, co-founder of the militant group Hamas.

0.38:

He was later detained by the army.

0.40:

Taha's arrest is a turning point for the Israelis who say Hamas has killed hundreds of people in terrorist attacks.

0.47:

They're adamant that the incursions will carry on.

0.50:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sharon Feingold, IDF spokeswoman:

"We will continue with our operations, both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank in order to send a clear message to the Palestinians, and those who are not involved in terrorism, that terrorism bears a price."

1.02:

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said the raid was a continuation of aggression against his people.

1.08:

His chief negotiator Saeb Erekat called for US intervention to stop Israel's actions.

1.14:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator:

"We urge President Bush to take two seconds off the focus on Iraq and to come out and condemn the killing of Moha Sweidan, the thirty three year old Palestinian woman, nine months into her pregnancy."

1.29:

Over in the West Bank Israeli troops renewed their search for militants.

1.33:

The army's been operating in Nablus, which it has called a "hornet's nest" of militants, on and off for several weeks.

1.42:

As the deaths and the incursions continue it's hard to imagine how peace can be achieved.

1.51:

VISION ENDS

SHOTLIST:

Al Askar refugee camp, near Nablus, West Bank

1. Various of destroyed house of Ali Azuri, accused of orchestrating Wednesday's suicide attacks in Tel Aviv (Ali Azuri's father and three brothers are arrested)

2. People picking through rubble of Azuri family house

3. Two female members of Azuri family sitting together

4. Closeup photo of Ali Azuri

5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ali Azuri's mother (no name given):

"Q: What will happen if your family are deported to Gaza?

A: They (Israeli authorities) can do anything they want, they are demolishing homes and deporting whoever they want, nobody is stopping them. But if they do deport them who will look after their families?"

Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, West Bank

6. Street scene

7. Exterior home of Ibrahim Najie, one of the Tel Aviv suicide bombers (member of previously unheard of Al-Nazir group, affiliated with Fatah)

8. Various of Najie's family members

9. Closeup photo of Najie

10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Najie's uncle (no name given):

"No one has told is us officially that he carried out the bombing- we just heard it on the new."

Jericho, West Bank

11. Set up shot Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator:

"The collective punishment of demolishing homes and then deporting families from their place of residence to other areas. This is a war crime. This is unacceptable. The international community must stop Israeli war crimes against the innocent Palestinian civilian population."

Jerusalem

13. Various security and police at bus stops and road blocks

STORYLINE:

Israeli troops have demolished the family homes of two men said to be the commanders of terror cells that carried out attacks on Israeli citizens earlier this week.

The male family members in each house - 16 in total - were detained, and Israel says it wants to deport them to the Gaza Strip.

The arrests took place in the early hours of Friday morning.

In the Al-Askar refugee camp in Nablus, soldiers destroyed the house of a leader of the Fatah-linked Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militia, Ali Ajouri, 23, badly damaging several nearby houses, residents said.

They arrested Ajouri's father and two brothers but Ajouri himself was not captured.

And in the village of Tel, south of Nablus, soldiers destroyed the house of Nasser Aseida, 26, leader of the Hamas military wing, suspected of organizing the bus ambush in the Jewish settlement of Emmanuel.

Palestinian officials condemned the arrests. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat described the Israeli military's actions as 'war crimes.'

Elsewhere in Nablus, two other families were celebrating the deaths of the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks in Tel Aviv.

Mohammed Attala, 18, and Ibrahim Najie, 19 came from the Balata refugee camp and belonged to a previously unheard of group, Al-Nazir.

The group is affiliated with Fatah, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's movement.