SHOTLIST:

Al-Fawwa, West Bank - 19 April 2004

1. Various shots of Israeli soldiers and army jeeps

2. Army ambulance arriving

3. Various of soldiers near army ambulance

4. Army ambulance and jeep leaving

Al-Fawwa, West Bank - 20 April 2004

5. Wide view army jeep

6. Soldiers standing

7. Army ambulance arriving

8. Mid view soldiers near army ambulance

9. Army ambulance and jeep leaving

Hebron, West Bank - 20 April 2004

10. Ambulance arriving at hospital

11. Body being carried from ambulance

12. Body in morgue

Al-Fawwa, West Bank - 20 April 2004

13. Wide shot house of Ahmed Abu Mujahed

14. Door being broken with bullet holes

15. Etcher machine being destroyed

16. Drill machine in room

17. Car being destroyed

18. Various wide shots Al-Fawwa village

STORYLINE:

The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian militant on Monday, as he attempted to escape arrest in the West Bank village of Al Fawwa, Palestinian witnesses and the army said.

A second militant was later detained by the Israeli military forces.

Witnesses said both men were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent off shoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party.

The Israeli army said the man, Ahmed Abu Mujahed, died as soldiers attempted to treat him.

His body was left in the area for Palestinian emergency services to collect in the early hours of Tuesday, once the operation was over.

It was then taken to the morgue at a hospital at Hebron, West Bank.

The Palestinian militants were believed to have been involved in terrorist activities in the West Bank.

Israeli security forces destroyed their equipment and cars that belonged to them.

T/I: 10:25:35

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met with Jordanian Prime Minister Abdel Salam al-Majali in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday (2/12) to discuss Israel's latest moves in the peace process. They were to discuss the Israeli cabinet's agreement to allow a limited troop

withdrawal from parts of the West Bank as well as the overall status of the peace process.

SHOWS:

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK, 2/12

EXT. WS armed security man on a roof next to a Palestinian flag;

WS honour guard in line for inspection;

helicopter arriving;

WS Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Jordanian Prime Minister Abdel Salam -Majali getting out of helicopter;

them inspecting the troops;

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdel Salam -Majali getting into car;

car arriving at Arafat's Head Quarters;

INT. Majali enters Palestinian president Yasser Arafat's office;

Arafat and Majali sitting for photo-op;

shaking hand;

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T/I: 10:57:34

The Finnish foreign minister Tarja Halonen on Tuesday (28/10) met with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the West bank town of Ramallah.

The two men discussed the stalled Middle East peace process and the possibilities of pushing it forward.

SHOWS:

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK 28 OCTOBER 1997

VS of cars arriving;

ms of the Finnish foreign minister Tarja Halonen meeting and greeting;

VS of photo opportunity;

MS of the outside of the building;

SOT Halonen (in English): "The discussion we had was consisting first of all of the peace process, and the possibilities to go further, and I handed over a message from the meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Union last weekend";

MS of the official parties leaving;

GV of exterior;

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SHOTLIST:

Bethlehem checkpoint, West Bank

1. Wide of Bethlehem checkpoint

2. Israeli soldier at tower

3. Israeli flag on checkpoint

4. Soldier checking Palestinian car

5. Woman passing through checkpoint

Qalandiya checkpoint, Ramallah, West Bank

6. Wide of cars lining at checkpoint

7. Poster of presidential candidate at checkpoint

8. Car driving pass barrier

9. Poster of Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Presidential candidate, with late

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat

10. Palestinian police men standing in streets

11. Shot of newspaper headlines

12. Wide of Ramallah street

Hawara checkpoint Nablus, West Bank

13. Israeli soldier letting Palestinian women cross the checkpoint

14. Soldier checking Palestinian car at checkpoint

15. More of Palestinian passing through checkpoint

16. Poster of Palestinian Presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti in Nablus

17. Wide of Nablus streets and candidate posters

18. Pull back to top shot of Nablus

Ramallah, West Bank

19. Various of Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia in meeting with former US President Jimmy Carter

20. Qureia and Carter shaking hands

STORYLINE:

Israeli soldiers manned various checkpoints throughout the West Bank on Saturday, a day before presidential elections to replace late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Palestinian officials complained that troop deployment and checkpoint procedures had not changed, despite a pledge by Israel to ease restrictions ahead of the vote.

At one Gaza checkpoint, hundreds of cars were waiting to cross on Saturday morning.

Palestinians reported that a 60-year-old taxi passenger was killed by army fire at the barrier. The army said soldiers fired at a gunman approaching on foot.

Israeli military officials said an effort was being made to speed up passage through roadblocks, but that security remained the top priority.

On Friday, Palestinian gunmen killed a soldier and wounded three in an ambush near the West Bank city of Nablus, prompting Israel to warn Palestinian leaders that it would reconsider its promise if an easing of restrictions is exploited by militants.

Israel delivered the warning through international observers headed by former US President Jimmy Carter and former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard, according to a spokesman for Carter's team, Les Campbell.

Observer teams were touring checkpoints on Saturday to see whether restrictions were indeed being eased, Campbell said.

SHOTLIST:

Night shots:

1. Wide shot line of Israeli APCs driving down street

2. Mid shot arrested Palestinians with Israeli soldier guarding them, APC goes by

3. Mid shot Israeli soldier targeting position

4. Tank on street comes to stop with gun pointing

5. APC and soldiers crouching outside house in Beituniyah suburb, they go in

6. APC pulls up on pavement

7. Various of house with lights on as tanks rev up outside

8. Israeli soldier telling cameraman to stop filming (UPSOUND: (English) Israeli soldier "This is closed area.")

9. Soldiers and APC stationed outside house

Daylight shots:

10. Tank stationed on street

11. 2 APCs pan to soldiers

12. Soldiers between APCs

13. Close up weapon, pull out to soldiers

14. Soldiers tilt to Palestinians at window looking down

15. Mid shot people at window

16. Tank blocking street

17. Closer shot tank

18. Group of soldiers approaching house

19. Soldiers go in through gate and close it

20. Pull out from face of arrested suspect to APC he is held in and soldier standing guard, soldier walks off with guard dog

STORYLINE:

Israeli troops entered the West Bank town of Ramallah early on Monday, but the army denied reports that soldiers had entered Yasser Arafat's compound and completed destruction of buildings hit in an earlier operation.

One Palestinian was killed and two wounded during exchanges of fire, Palestinian doctors said.

The army said two soldiers were also wounded.

The Israeli military said soldiers surrounded Arafat's compound to prevent gunmen from entering but did not enter themselves.

Palestinians officials also said the Israeli forces remained outside the compound.

Arafat was inside the compound and was unharmed, the officials said.

Troops moved into the West Bank town hours after the Palestinian leader named a new, streamlined cabinet and hours before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to meet U-S President George W Bush in Washington.

The latest incursion began around 0400 local time (0100 GMT) when tanks, armoured personnel carriers, jeeps and infantry on foot entered the town.

Soldiers moved among houses around the Amari refugee camp, next to Ramallah, and into the suburb of Beituniyah.

Israeli military sources said the purpose of the latest incursion into the West Bank town was to arrest terrorist suspects.

They said the troops would remain in Ramallah for a "limited time" and had arrested about a dozen suspects overnight, witnesses said.

Also, soldiers detained several suspects in night time raids in other parts of the West Bank, the statement said.

Israeli incursions are an almost daily affair.

On Sunday, troops entered the town of Tulkarem.

T/I: 10:19:42

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Knut Vollebuek on Wednesday (26/11) to discuss ways to ease the troubled Middle East peace process.

SHOWS:

NABLUS, WEST BANK 26/11

Cars arrives to fanfare;

Norwegian foreign minister Knut Vollebuek entering building;

vs photop Yasser Arafat and Vollebuek;

both leaving building;

SOT Arafat (in English): (reporter q: do you accept 6-8 percent of the West Bank as a proposal?) "Till now I have no proposal. (is a this a basis for negotiations?). The principle of speaking about further redeployment is very important to push forward the peace process.

SOT Vollebuek (are you saddened by the current state of the Oslo Accord) Yes I am. It's important that the Oslo Accord can be applied. It is a basis for negotiations for the process and I think it's important that the parties continue to use for a basis of negotiations."

Arafat leaving with aides;

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T/I: 10:47:31

French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Ramallah on Tuesday (25/11) and afterwards said he hoped there would soon be a "substantial" withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank.

Vedrine is on a three-day visit to the Middle East.

SHOWS:

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK, 25/11

French foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine out of car;

Vedrine into building

Vedrine and Yasser Arafat shaking hands;

vs meeting;

Vedrine and Arafat come out of building to speak to press;

SOT Arafat (Arabic, translator in french): ""France has a global role to play, morally and politically speaking. Europe also has a role to play so from the bottom of our hearts we are very hopeful."

SOT Vedrine (French): "The French position concerning the peace process is well known by everybody."

Vedrine and Arafat shaking hands;

walking to cars;

cars leaving;

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T/I: 10:12:40

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said on Friday (31/10) that he would not go to 'final status' talks on the peace process unless Israel first pulled back its troops from occupied areas as promised. He was speaking after a Palestinian cabinet meeting on Thursday (30/10) night in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

SHOWS:

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK 30/10

MS Hanan Ashrawi getting out of car;

MS Yasser Arafat's car arriving;

MS Arafat getting out of car and entering building;

SOT Nabil Shaath, in English: "We are going to prove to Mrs Albright we are serious but given what the Israelis have declared over the past two days, one does not expect much results, on the contrary. The Israelis are insisting on blowing out and finishing this agreement by not going through the redeployement and not stopping settlements and not implementing the agreements they will be in effect sabotaging and destroying the peace process.";

MA Arafat PULLOUT to WS meeting;

CU Arafat in meeting;

VS meeting;

WS Arafat leaving building;

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T/I: 10:39:04

After meeting Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday (27/10), Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov accused Israel of failing to honour agreements it had made with the Palestinians on self-rule.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Arafat, Primakov said Russia would do its utmost to get the peace process back on track, but this would only be possible if both sides abided by the agreements.

SHOWS:

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK 27/10

Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov's car arrival;

Primakov getting out of car;

CA media;

Primakov entering building;

photo op meeting Primakov and Arafat;

CU Primakov;

CU Arafat;

more photo op;

EXT building with huge picture of Arafat in front of the building; palestinian police in front of the building;

SOT Yasser Arafat (in Arabic): "The peace process is passing a dangerous curve. I appeal to president Yeltsin and to you personally to intervene in order to achieve progress since Russia is co-sponsor of the peace process.";

CA media;

SOT Yevgeny Primakov Russian Foreign Minister (in Russian) saying that Russia will do its utmost to get the peace process out of its current crisis: "the Palestinian people has a just cause to win back their land and create an independent state but this is only possible if the two sides abide by the agreements";

he accuses Israel of failing to keep to its end of self-rule accords with the Palestinians: "It's not just that the present Israeli government should abide by the agreements which previous governments signed with the Palestinians. It should also abide by the agreements which it itself signed referring in particular to the Hebron accord reached by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Arafat in January, and the Palestinian people in their just cause to win back their land and create an independent state";

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SHOTLIST:

Ramallah, West Bank, 21 June 2004

1. Zoom in on Nabil Amr's house entrance with armed guards coming out

2. Tilt down from window to security outside house

3. Amr's flat interior with blood stains on sofa

4. Close up of blood

5. Broken window

6. Moving shoot of blood on floor

7. Police outside house

8. Tilt down from house to white jeep parked outside

9. Security standing in front of the house gate entrance

Ramallah, West Bank, 21 June 2004

10. Exterior shot of Al-Ram hospital

11. People gathered outside of hospital

12. Hospital lobby with security officers preventing media access

13. Mahmoud Abbas, (also known as Abu Mazen), walks in (white hair)

14. Various shots of hospital lobby - people walking in

Ramallah, West Bank, File 8 June 2003, APTN

15. Nabil Amr walking into building

Ramallah, West Bank, File 27 July 2003, APTN

16. Amr sitting at his office

Ramallah, West Bank, File 29 July 2003, APTN

17. Amr walking toward a rocking chair and getting seated

18. Amr sitting on rocking chair and watching TV screen

19. Amr sitting at his office table and talking on the phone

STORYLINE:

A Palestinian lawmaker who is a well-known critic of Yasser Arafat was shot and wounded by unknown gunmen in the West Bank city of Ramallah late on Tuesday, hospital officials said.

Nabil Amr, a former Cabinet minister, was shot in the leg while he was at his home in Ramallah, Palestinians said. Doctors said he was not seriously wounded.

Amr was taken to a hospital in A-Ram, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, for treatment.

Since Friday there has been considerable tension over Arafat's appointments in security forces and the intention of Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia to resign.

Palestinians speculated that the gunmen were sending a message to stop criticising Arafat, but there was no hard evidence to back that up.

Amr has often complained about corruption and inefficiency in Arafat's administration.

Amr served as a Cabinet minister in the short-lived government of Mahmoud Abbas, who served as Arafat's first prime minister last year but resigned after only four months, complaining that he was given no power.

Abbas was the first to visit Amr in the hospital.

T/I: 10:09:01

Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek, whose country hosted the secret talks which produced the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat late Thursday (27/11).

SHOWS:

NABLUS, WEST BANK, 27/11

EXT. Arafat's Head Quarters;

Norwegian Foreign Minister's convoy arriving;

Norwegian Foreign minister Knut Vollebuek greeting Palestinian delegation ;

INT. Norwegian Foreign minister Knut Vollebuek meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat

photo-op;

the two delegations sitting to discuss;

EXT. presser of the two politicians;

SOT Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (un English):" I was discussing how to put forward the peace process, how to protect it by all means";

SOT Knut Vollebuek, Norwegian Foreign minister (in English): " I wanted to brief him with my various talks today with the Israeli Authorities and I felt that since I am going back to Norway, I should inform him (he means Arafat) and that's why i keep in contact";

Knut Vollebuek leaving;

Yasser Arafat getting back to building;

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SHOTLIST

Ramallah, West Bank, 21 June 2004

1. Zoom in on Nabil Amr's house entrance with armed guards coming out

2. Tilt down from window to security outside house

3. Amr's flat interior with blood stains on sofa

4. Close up of blood

5. Broken window

6. Moving shoot of blood on floor

7. Police outside house

8. Tilt down from house to white jeep parked outside

9. Security standing in front of the house gate entrance

Ramallah, West Bank, 21 June 2004

10. Exterior shot of Al-Ram hospital

11. People gathered outside of hospital

12. Hospital lobby with security officers preventing media access

13. Mahmoud Abbas, (also known as Abu Mazen), walks in (white hair)

14. Various shots of hospital lobby - people walking in

15. SOUNDBITE (Eng) Dr Rawhi Fatuh, Al Ram hospital:

" Mr Amr arrived at the hospital at 11.30pm (2030 GMT) with two shotguns in his right leg. It was two fractures and very damage of the blood vessels. He is under operation right now and he needs another two hours to finish his operation. We hope the situation will be good."

16. Abu Mazen leaves with security

17. Ambulance at hospital

Ramallah, West Bank, File 8 June 2003, APTN

15. Nabil Amr walking into building

Ramallah, West Bank, File 27 July 2003, APTN

16. Amr sitting at his office

Ramallah, West Bank, File 29 July 2003, APTN

17. Amr walking toward a rocking chair and getting seated

18. Amr sitting on rocking chair and watching TV screen

19. Amr sitting at his office table and talking on the phone

STORYLINE:

A Palestinian lawmaker who is a well-known critic of Yasser Arafat was shot and wounded by unknown gunmen in the West Bank city of Ramallah late on Tuesday, hospital officials said.

Nabil Amr, a former Cabinet minister, was shot in the leg while he was at his home in Ramallah, Palestinians said. Doctors said he was not seriously wounded.

Amr was taken to a hospital in A-Ram, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, for treatment.

A Doctor at the hospital said Amr was being operated on for two fractures and serious blood vessel damage to his leg.

Since Friday there has been considerable tension over Arafat's appointments in security forces and the intention of Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia to resign.

Palestinians speculated that the gunmen were sending a message to stop criticising Arafat, but there was no hard evidence to back that up.

Amr has often complained about corruption and inefficiency in Arafat's administration.

Amr served as a Cabinet minister in the short-lived government of Mahmoud Abbas, who served as Arafat's first prime minister last year but resigned after only four months, complaining that he was given no power.

SHOTLIST:

Nablus, West Bank

1. Gunmen walking down street

2. Gunmen outside polling station handing guns to police officers

3. Close up of guns leaning against wall

4. Gunmen picking up guns

5. Tayseer Khaled, presidential candidate voting

6. Khaled leaving voting station

Nablus, Israeli-Palestinian checkpoint

7. Van driving through checkpoint

8. Palestinian man arguing with Israeli soldier

Hebron, West Bank

9. Palestinian farmer on donkey riding into polling station

10. Farmer with officials in polling station

11. Close up of official inking farmer's thumb

12. Farmer voting

13. Farmer leaving polling station with his donkey

Ramallah, West Bank

14. US Senator John Kerry arriving in Ramallah

15. Kerry meeting candidate Mustafa Barghouti (cousin of Marwan)

16. Barghouti entering room with Kerry

17. Kerry walking down stairs

18. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kerry, US Senator:

"This is a very, very historic day, a very important day, and we're here because we have very, very high hopes for an election that can help move the process forward. The whole world wants to see peace in the Middle East. This election is a great step for democracy and we hope that throughout the day the Palestinians will have an opportunity to make their choice for the future."

19. Marwan Barghouti's wife Fadwa arriving at polling station

20. Fadwa voting

21. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Fadwa Barghouti, Wife of Marwan Barghouti:

"Although I have the authority to vote in the name of my son and husband (Marwan Barghouti) I have no permission to do so, and they cannot vote in jail. Nevertheless this is a day of democracy for the Palestinian people, and we are proud to show that the Palestinian people are alive and struggling for independence."

22. Fadwa walking away

STORYLINE:

Voting continued in the West Bank on Sunday as Palestinians held an historic presidential election - the first in nine years - to replace long time leader Yasser Arafat in a vote many across the world hoped would usher in a moderate leadership and revitalise the Middle East peace process.

In Nablus presidential candidate Tayseer Khaled cast his vote while militant gunmen put down their weapons outside the polling station before picking up their ballots.

At a Nablus checkpoint some Palestinians grew frustrated at their slow progress as they made the journey out of the city and towards polling stations.

In Hebron one farmer used his donkey to reach the polling station.

In Ramallah, US Senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry met leading challenger and democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti telling reporters that "The whole world wants to see peace in the Middle East".

Mahmoud Abbas, candidate of Arafat's ruling Fatah movement, was expected to easily win Sunday's poll.

But he was struggling to capture a clear mandate to push forward with his agenda of resuming peace talks and reforming the corruption-riddled Palestinian Authority. Arafat died on Nov. 11.

Israel, for its part, signalled that it is ready to work with Abbas. Senior officials said they would seek a meeting with Abbas shortly after the

election. They said Israel is ready to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a crackdown on Palestinian rocket attacks.

Polls opened at 7 a.m., with some 1.8 (m) million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem eligible to vote.

Voters began trickling into stations shortly after the polls opened, and activity appeared brisk in many areas within a half hour. There were no

reports of problems.

According to opinion polls, Abbas holds a clear lead over Barghouti.

Analysts cautioned, however, that Abbas would need a strong showing - perhaps up to two-thirds of the vote - to go forward with his agenda.

SHOTLIST:

1. Exterior Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters

2. Arafat at cabinet meeting

3. Mid shot Arafat and Russian ambassador to Israel Sergey Piskov, sitting to his left

4. Arafat smiling, pan to Piskov

5. Arafat and Palestinian officials emerging from building to address press

6. Various Arafat and Piskov and others embracing

7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader:

"The building of the fence is a continuation of a crime. This racist and Zionist wall is eating up our land, it is taking 60 percent of our land. For that wall, what does that mean? It means that this (Israeli) government is only destroying and ending the peace process. I call on the whole world, the Quartet, UN, Arab League, the non-allied countries, all the world, will you continue watching these crimes committed against the Palestinian people?"

8. Arafat and Palestinian officials turn and go back inside

STORYLINE:

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday called the security fence between Israel and the West Bank "racist", and said that the Israeli government was "destroying and ending the peace process".

The outburst came after Arafat met with Russian ambassador to Israel Sergey Piskov, at his compound on the West Bank.

Visibly angered, Arafat claimed that the security fence was taking sixty percent of Palestinian land, and called on the international community to act against what he said were "crimes against the Palestinian people".

Arafat was responding to Wednesday's Israeli cabinet approval of the barrier that cuts deep into the West Bank with the goal of shielding key settlements - as well as Israel - from suicide bombers.

Palestinians accuse Israel of imposing the borders of a future Palestinian state without negotiation.

To appease the US, sections of wall around settlements in the midst of the West Bank will for now be disconnected from each other and from existing barrier sections built closer to Israel's pre-1967 border with the West Bank. The final route will be decided in the coming months.

To date, Israel has completed about 150 kilometers (90 miles) of fences, walls and trenches built close to the pre-1967 border but dipping slightly into occupied territory in some areas to incorporate Jewish settlements.

LEADIN:

Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi meets with Palestinian officials in the West Bank.

The visit follows a call to Arab and Muslim leaders to visit the West Bank following the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

STORYLINE:

Laying a wreath at the mausoleum of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

The Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi pays his respects to the revered leader while in the West Bank on Thursday.

Later he meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah where they discussed the "future of the Palestinian cause", according to officials.

"Our visit was aimed at getting to know about this Holy and brotherly country, and to know about the reality of the situation so as to be saturated with this country's culture, which has a deep history," says Alawi.

He says that his image of the region changed after seeing it with his own eyes - "after we saw for ourselves the steadfastness of the Palestinian people everywhere we went."

Alawi also meets with Deputy Foreign Minister Tayseer Jaradat.

The Omani delegation's visit to Jerusalem will be "an important message to the Arab countries" says Jaradat.

"I can say that the Palestinian-Omani relations are distinct and there is much assistance and many agreements between the Sultanate of Oman and the Palestinian state. We hope that these relations will develop for the benefit of the Palestinian people," adds Jaradat.

This visit came in response to Abbas' call for Arabs and Muslims to visit the occupied territories, including Jerusalem after the US decision to recognise the contested city as the capital of Israel.

Ramallah, West Bank - 15 February 2018

1. Wide of Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi laying a wreath at the mausoleum of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat

2. Alawi (right) and Majdi Al-Khalidi, top diplomatic adviser at the Palestinian Presidential office, at mausoleum

3. Alawi and Al-Khalidi togather with Omani officials at the mausoleum

4. Close of the mausoleum

5. Various of Alawi meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

6. Palestinian officials in the meeting

7. Pan from Alawi and Abbas to Omani officials in the meeting

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yusuf bin Alawi, Omani Foreign Minister:

"Our visit was aimed at getting to know about this holy and brotherly country, and to know about the reality of the situation so as to be saturated with this country's culture, which has a deep history."

9. Alawi and Tayseer Jaradat, Palestinian Deputy Foreign Minister

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yusuf bin Alawi, Omani Foreign Minister:

"The image of Palestine that was in our minds has changed after this visit and after we saw for ourselves the steadfastness of the Palestinian people everywhere we went."

11. Wide of bin Alawi and Jaradat

12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tayseer Jaradat, Deputy Palestinian Foreign Minister:

"During this visit, a meeting was held between the Palestinian President and the Omani officials where they discussed the future of the Palestinian cause. The Omani delegation will visit Jerusalem and this will be an important message to the Arab countries to visit Palestine and to visit Jerusalem, this is a religious and national duty as the Omani Foreign Minister said. I can say that the Palestinian-Omani relations are distinct and there is much assistance and many agreements between the Sultanate of Oman and the Palestinian state. We hope that these relations will develop for the benefit of the Palestinian people."

13. Wide of the presidential headquarters in Ramallah

14. Palestinian flag

15. Wide of the presidential headquarters

SHOTLIST:

Dehasha Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, West Bank

1. Long shot demonstration

2. Palestinians holding picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

3. Palestinians lighting candles

4. People waving flags

5. Marchers listening to message from Abdel Aziz Rantissi, Hamas leader, speaking by phone from Gaza

6. Various of marchers holding vigil

Ramallah, West Bank

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yasser Abed Rabbo, Palestinian Information Minister:

"After two years of the beginning of the Palestinian intifada things are becoming worse. The Israeli government is not showing any will to start peace process negotiations again and they don't intend to end the war they have launched against the Palestinian people."

8. Rabbo leaving

STORYLINE:

Hundreds of Palestinians on Friday held a vigil to mark the second anniversary of their uprising against Israel and its increasingly tight grip on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In Bethlehem hundreds of marchers gathered for a candle-lit parade. The Biblical city is one of only two major towns in the West Bank which is not currently under an Israeli-imposed curfew.

Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantissi addressed the crowd by mobile phone.

The uprising broke out on 28 September 2000 when Israel's then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the most-disputed site in Jerusalem -- what Jews refer to as the Temple Mount and Palestinians as the Haram as-Sharif mosque complex.

Rioting spread through the West Bank and Gaza Strip, gunmen fired at Israeli army positions from the crowds, and dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire.

The incident and the subsequent wave of violence soon became known as the second "intifada" following an uprising from 1987 to 1993 that ended with interim peace accords between Palestinians and Israelis.

In Ramallah on Friday, Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said he believed conditions had deteriorated significantly in the last two years and that Israel had no intention of ending its assault on the Palestinian people.

SHOTLIST:

1. Various flags outside Palestinian Council building

2. Sign outside building

3. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia arriving

4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ahmed Qureia, Palestinian Prime Minister:

"(Any US guarantees to Israel will be) unacceptable and will not deliver a solution. Any guarantees to Israel will affect the final status issues (as approved by Oslo Agreements) based on the fact that these issues should be the subject for discussion and should not be promised (by the United States)."

5. Qureia walking into building

6. Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat arriving for meeting

7. Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath arriving for meeting

8. Interior - cabinet meeting

9. Close up Qureia pull back to mid shot table

10. Close up Qureia

11. Erekat

12. Pan over meeting

13. Wide shot exterior Palestinian President Yasser Arafat''s compound

14. Palestinian flag

15. Arafat meeting representatives of US Christian group

16. Various Arafat talking with group

STORYLINE:

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia convened his weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared for the April 29 vote on the hotly contested plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli disengagement plan is likely to be high on the agenda at the Palestinian cabinet meeting as is Sharon''s upcoming trip to Washington.

Qureia said any US approval for the proposal would be unacceptable.

Sharon set the date for the April poll on Sunday.

The referendum, among 200,000 Likud members, is to be followed within days by votes in the Cabinet and in parliament.

Sharon is taking a gamble since approval is far from assured and if he loses the referendum, there would be growing pressure on him to resign.

The prime minister has come under growing attack from Israeli hardliners who accuse him of rewarding Palestinian militants by proposing to withdraw from Gaza and four West Bank settlements.

Sharon said he plans to evacuate all 21 Israeli settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank.

Meanwhile Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met US Christian leaders at his Ramallah headquarters on Monday.

Arafat said he welcomes an Israeli withdrawal, but only as a first step.

Palestinians say the withdrawal plan is an Israeli ruse to trade Gaza for a permanent hold over most of the West Bank.

They say a withdrawal must be coordinated as part of the US-backed "road map" peace plan, which envisions a Palestinian state by next year.

Sharon plans to travel to Washington this month in hope of winning an endorsement for his disengagement proposal from US President George Bush.

SHOTLIST: NB: wrong slate on tape, story correct

Ramallah

1. Pan of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound

2. Various of Arafat seated at table with members of the Palestinian team

3. Yasser Arafat's advisor, Nabil Abu Rdenieh walking

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nabil Abu Rdenieh, Yasser Arafat's Advisor:

"This proves that the Israelis cannot face justice, the Israelis knew from the beginning that they are facing the international court, the world community and they cannot defend their illegal actions in the West Bank and Gaza and especially building the wall on the Palestinian land. This is Israeli recognition of failure and we hope that this step will prove for the world community that the Israelis are not part of this world community, and they should abide by the United Nations resolutions and by the international law. So far the Israelis are violating and breaching all these laws, and we hope that the advisory question will be taken by the international court in the near future to put an end to this is aggression and this Israeli policy."

Budrus

5. Israeli APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier) blocking the road as demonstrators approach

6. Demonstrators marching

7. Soldiers standing in front of group of demonstrators

8. Demonstrators waving flags and chanting

9. Israeli troops walking across dirt track as one of them stumbles

10. Troops talking to demonstrator

11. Troops standing watching demonstration

12. Army jeep driving up to soldiers

13. Pull out from demonstrators to troops

14. Various of soldiers

15. Demonstrators standing by foundations of security barrier

STORYLINE:

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met on Thursday with members of the Palestinian team that will attend world court hearings on the legality of the West Bank separation barrier.

Israel earlier on Thursday said it would not attend the hearings, saying there was no point in sending a legal team since it did not recognise the judges' authority in the case.

The decision was made by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and five senior Cabinet ministers, according to an announcement by Sharon's office.

Meanwhile in the West Bank village of Budrus, Palestinians protested against the construction of the barrier that will cut across local farmlands.

Hearings on the legality of the barrier at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, are to begin February 23.

In December, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly asked its highest tribunal to issue a non-binding ruling on the legality of Israel's separation barrier, a series of fences and walls built in the West Bank.

Israel says the obstacles, which will eventually stretch for 750 kilometres (440 miles), are necessary to keep out suicide bombers.

Palestinians charge that the barrier constitutes a land grab since it cuts deep into the West Bank at points.

In the first hearings, the court is to rule whether it will handle the case.

Several dozen countries, even those that have objections to the barrier, have submitted briefs saying the matter should not be brought before the

court.

Israel has also challenged the world court's authority to rule on the barrier, arguing that the issue is being manipulated for political ends.

SHOTLIST:

1. Various Palestinian's marching to Arafat's headquarters as part of pro-Arafat demo

2. Cutaway audience

3. Arafat greeting people

4. Arafat sitting next to microphone

5. Palestinian orator rallying crowd

6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader

"I swear to God I will see the Palestinian state, as a martyr or while still alive. God gives me this martyrdom, as I fight for Jerusalem. (applause) And I say to these tanks, the Israeli tanks outside, this is not the first time and it's not going to be the last time they besiege us. They should remember what happened in Beirut, but I tell you, us and them (the Israelis) are locked in a long battle and the mountain will not be moved."

7. Pan over crowd

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader

"Not to forget I am here as I have mentioned when I was asked when I was leaving Beirut, 'where are you going Arafat' I told them I am going to Palestine. But now before you ask me the next question I will tell you we ought to meet in West, East Jordan."

9. Arafat leaving room

10. EU special envoy Miguel Moratinos leaving car and walking towards the reporter

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Miguel Moratinos, EU special Envoy

"There is no side, I am here as the European Union representative to say that the European Union want to stress their support to the Palestinian leader and the Palestinian authority, I think that the occupation is not something that will help to defuse the tension. "

12. Various of EU special envoy and Yasser Arafat

STORYLINE:

Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat said on Monday that Israel will not defeat the Palestinian people, adding that he would see the establishment of Palestinian state even if he had to become a martyr in the process.

Arafat claimed Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, planned to occupy all land already under Palestinian control.

The Palestinian leader was speaking to a group of Palestinian intellectuals and academics at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah before meeting with EU special envoy Miguel Moratinos.

The speech, which met with rapturous applause, came after Israeli tanks occupied the West Bank town of Tulkarem in retaliation to terrorist attacks by Palestinian militants last week.

Israeli tanks also remained outside Arafat's office in Ramallah, blocking all roads that lead to the building.

Last week's attacks included an assault on an Israeli banquet hall in Hadera in which a Palestinian gunman from Tulkarem killed six Israelis before being shot dead.

In previous reprisals for the Hadera attack, Israel destroyed the five-story Palestinian broadcasting centre in the West Bank town of Ramallah and razed the Tulkarem government centre.

SHOTLIST

Jifnah village, near Ramallah, West Bank

1. Exterior shot of polling centre being closed (night shot)

2. Ballot boxes being closed

3. Close up election committee members closing ballot boxes

4. A woman opening ballot box to count votes

5. Committee members standing around ballot boxes

6. Committee members counting votes

7. Close up voting results being chalked up on board

8. Wide of vote counting scene

Ramallah, West Bank

9. Screen with projected voting percentage at the Fatah centre building

++Night shots++

10. Wide shot of Fatah centre

11. Fatah members gathered at the centre waiting for results

12. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas picture in background

13. Picture of former president Yasser Arafat

14. Sign at Fatah centre

STORYLINE

Municipal elections were held in dozens of West Bank towns on Thursday, with the Islamic militant group Hamas expected to make a strong showing, despite a major Israeli offensive against suspected militants.

Voting took place in 82 towns and villages, with a total population of 376-thousand.

In Ramallah, ballots were closed on Thursday evening as members of the election committee prepared to count the votes.

At the centre for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah movement, members eagerly awaited preliminary results.

Fatah is widely perceived as corrupt and many Palestinians said they would vote for Hamas to teach Fatah a lesson and get better government services.

Israel objects to Hamas' participation in elections as long as it remains armed and many of the Israeli attacks this week have been against Hamas targets.

But Abbas said allowing Hamas to field candidates would lead to its transformation into a political party.

It was the third of four rounds of municipal elections.

Final results of the elections were expected by Friday.