T/I 10:00:00

STORY: WRAP

LOCATION: WEST BANK/ISRAEL

DATE: 14 FEBRUARY 1995

DURATION: 1.11

Hebron mosque massacre anniversary; Jewish taxi driver buried.

Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron observed a commercial

strike on Tuesday (14/2) to mark the first anniversary of the

massacre of 29 Palestinians by an Israeli settler in the Tomb of

the Patriarchs, an ancient mosque. Israeli security forces were on

high alert in Hebron and throughout the West Bank, Jerusalem and

Tel Aviv in anticipation of violence connected to the anniversary.

The attack on February 25, 1994, was the worst incident of

violence against Palestinians by a lone Israeli and set off a

sequence of suicide bombings across Israel in which some 60 people

have been killed. The anniversary was marked today according to

the Muslim calendar. In Jerusalem, where a Jewish taxi driver, who

was stabbed to death on Monday, was buried, Israeli Prime

Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, said his government was reluctant to lift

the closure of Gaza and the West Bank "until the Palestinian

Authority proves that it is committed to fighting terror". The

Authority responded by ordering a raid on the Khan Yunis district

of Gaza, where 200 kilogrammes of gunpowder and 25,000

pornographic playing cards were seized and later burned.

SHOWS:

(HEBRON, WEST BANK 14/2) Tomb of the Patriarchs. Poster of

PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat, at rally. WS of rally in hall. Jewish

settler arguing with Mayor of Hebron, Mustafa Neitshe.

(JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 14/2) WS funeral procession. Pallbearers.

Covered body. SOT Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin: "The

government of Israel is committed, on one hand, to continue the

negotiation, to bring about the implementation of the declaration

of principles of the peace accord in the West Bank, but at the

same time we have to see a real effort by the Palestinian

authorities against terrorism originated from their area."

(GAZA, 14/2) Gunpowder laid out on ground. CU gunpowder being

spread. Officials thumbing through pornographic playing cards.

Flames.

LEADIN:

Palestinians have been reflecting on what the Oslo Accords have achieved since the first agreement was signed 25 years ago.

The interim peace deal was meant to start a process to resolve the conflict with Israel.

STORYLINE

Twenty-five years have passed since the Oslo Accords were signed in Washington DC.

Back then, the agreement seemed to herald the start of a peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

It was overseen by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Many saw the deals as paving the way to the creation of an independent Palestinian state, but their five-year transitional period expired without a resolution to the conflict.

It has left Palestinians disappointed and disillusioned.

"We lost almost everything; we lost Jerusalem, we lost the Right of Return. Palestinians did not win anything from Oslo," says Mutei Shihab, a Palestinian who lives in the US.

The first of the historic agreements was signed on September 13, 1993. A second accord, known as Oslo II, was signed in September 1995.

Under the agreement, the Palestinians would establish a self-governing authority, return hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the West Bank and Gaza, build state institutions and improve the standard of living of the Palestinian citizens.

But by 1998, the deal was fraying.

After 25 years, there is no final peace agreement and no establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Ramallah resident Rebhi Arouri blames Israel for the failure.

"The truth proved that the Israelis were not interested in implementing any peace process," he says.

Hanan Ashrawai, a senior Palestinian official, says the Oslo Accords had "many weak points".

"Israel exploited this weakness and also confiscated the political process and worked unilaterally to undermine it," she says.

That hopeful time in America 25 years ago has been replaced by a new low in Palestinian-US relations.

The Trump administration has cut millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians and has formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, much to the anger of Palestinians who claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Ashrawai says an "Israeli-American right-wing extremist racist coalition" is trying to "blackmail" Palestinians to give in to pressure.

"It is very clear that peace has become more distant," she says.

The White House has said it is working on a Middle East peace plan, but no details have yet been announced.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has already rejected the plan before it is released, saying the US is not an honest broker.

Twenty-five years after the first Oslo Accord was signed, Palestinians and Israelis are even further from a resolution to their conflict.

Ramallah, West Bank - 16 September 2018

1. Wide of Al-Manara Square in Ramallah

2. Various of streets

3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mutei Shihab, Palestinian living in the US:

"It (Oslo Accord) achieved 195 settlements for Jews, achieved that we almost lost resistance, we lost almost everything; we lost Jerusalem, we lost the Right of Return. Palestinians did not win anything from Oslo."

4. Mid of Palestinian policemen in street

5. Various of streets

6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rebhi Arouri, Ramallah resident:

"The truth proved that the Israelis were not interested in implementing any peace process or peaceful resolution to the Palestinian issue, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It seems that Israeli society as a whole is interested in keeping the occupation and continuing with the humiliation and subjugation of the Palestinian people."

7. Wide of Hanan Ashrawi, senior Palestinian official, in her office

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanan Ashrawai, senior Palestinian official:

"The content of the agreement had many weak points, many lapses and defects. And now as a result of that we have reached a very critical stage, because Israel exploited this weakness and also confiscated the political process and worked unilaterally to undermine it, and also to impose what it wants, taking advantage of the transitional period, taking advantage of the absence of arbitration, taking advantage of the absence of questioning or observation over its actions or the existence of protection for the Palestinian side."

9. Various of Ashrawi in her office

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanan Ashrawai, senior Palestinian official:

"Peace is in a very difficult situation because there is an Israeli-American right-wing extremist racist coalition that is disrespecting all rights, all international laws, all agreements and all the requirements of peace. And it is also trying to pressure and blackmail the Palestinian side in order to give in to this American pressure and the American threat and the unilateral steps of Israel, of course, from the settlement, annexation and 'Judaization' of Jerusalem. It is very clear that peace has become more distant."

11. Mid of street

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat emerging from headquarters

2. Palestinian flag

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader

"We are very grateful for the European Union, their continuous support to us by all means. And this visit from His Excellency, the continuity of this European support for the road map to be implemented quickly, and in spite of the Israelis who are, till now, refusing to accept the road map. Instead of that they are escalating their military aggression against our people, against our cities, refugee camps, and our farms, our factories. And in spite of that we are insisting to follow up the peace of the brave which I have signed with my partner Rabin (Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli Prime Minister) in the White House. And we are committed also now for the road map."

4. Arafat entering headquarters

STORYLINE:

The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called for the so-called roadmap to be implemented as soon as possible following a meeting with a European Parliament delegation on Thursday.

The Palestinians have already announced their acceptance of the plan but Israel says it has reservations.

The 'road map' envisages a series of confidence building measures aimed at ending the current cycle of violence, and the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state.

Israel tries to dissuade foreign visitors from meeting Arafat, saying such visits are not helpful to the peace process and sideline the newly elected Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen.

Israel made a final decision on Sunday (6/11) to reopen the Tomb

of the Patriarchs, the West Bank shrine that has been closed since

Jewish settler's massacre last February. Prime Minister

Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet voted to reopen the site on Monday with

stringent new security arrangements, including clearly marked

separate entrances for Jews and Muslims that will eliminate any

contact between the two groups on the premises. Authorities will

also impose a limit of 300 Jews and 300 Muslims in the shrine at

any one time. Except for major holidays, Muslims will pray only in

the Isaac Hall, the largest of the three main sections in the

tomb, while Jews will have access only to the Abraham and Jacob

halls.

SHOWS:

JERUSALEM/WEST BANK 6/11-FILE

RTV common WTN

File Hebron 25 February 1994:

0.00 crowd near tomb of the patriarchs shrine

0.03 massacre victim on stretcher

0.06 ambulance racing down street

0.10 another victim being stretchered away

0.14 elderly arab woman grieving with others

Jerusalem 6/11

0.18 israeli cabinet meeting

0.21 military chiefs at meeting

0.25 various cabinet ministers

0.28 ws cabinet meeting

0.34 meeting framed in doorway

0.38 natsot education minister amnon rubinstein: "we pray and hope

that extremists on both sides will not use this opening of

the tomb in order to bring about another further violent

event."

Hebron, West Bank 6/11

0.50 ws exterior of tomb of the patriarchs shrine

0.52 security barriers around tomb site

0.58 "passage for jews" and other signs outside tomb walls, slow

pan of facade

1.10 ends

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas walking to the press conference

2. Wide shot Rice and Abbas at podium

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:

" It is very important for ordinary Palestinian people in their daily lives, whether it is the farmer, university student or the restaurant owner that there will be a freedom of movement established between gaza and West Bank and also that we ease issues of movement in the West Bank, so we have spend a good deal of time speaking about that."

4. Wide shot press conference

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:

" We do with the Israelis what we do with each of the parties - which is to ask them to concentrate very hard on what they need to do to fulfil their obligations. These are partnerships in which we are involved and we expect that or partners live up to their obligations."

6. Wide shot press conference

STORYLINE:

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continued an intensive round of diplomacy in the Middle East on Monday.

After meeting the Palestinian leader in Ramallah, she said that an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on easing restrictions on a Gaza Strip border crossing was "in sight."

Reducing restrictions on the movement of cargo from Gaza into Israel, and opening the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt are considered crucial to efforts to revive the economy of the impoverished coastal strip.

Rice made the remarks at the joint news conference with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.

Earlier on Monday she met Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.

Later Rice will attend the memorial service of Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Prime Minister who was assassinated 10 years ago, November, 1995.

SHOTLIST:

Ramallah, West Bank

NIGHT SHOTS

1. Various Israeli jeeps driving around Arafat's headquarters

DAY SHOTS

2. Wide shot of Arafat headquarters with flag

3. Wide shot entrance top Arafat's headquarters

4. Pan along Latin Patriarch priests to Arafat

5. Pan across meeting

6. Close up Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, Michel Sabah, pans to Arafat

7. Arafat and Sabah come out of compound

8. They kiss farewell

9. Arafat kissing other priests

10. Close up Arafat

STORYLINE:

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Tuesday blamed Israel for lack of progress on the roadmap.

He said that Palestinians had only faced the possibility of peace in the region when they had been dealing with Israelis the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

He was speaking after meeting the Latin Patriarch for Jerusalem, Michel Sabah, in his Ramallah headquarters.

Also on Monday, Arafat was handed the authority to appoint a new cabinet by Palestinian premier-designate, Ahmed Qureia.

This sets up a new confrontation with Israel, which has said it will not deal with an Arafat-dominated

government.

Israel's security cabinet recently decided to "remove" Arafat, which appears to leave open three options: expelling, killing or further isolating the veteran Palestinian leader.

The decision came after twin suicide bombings in which 15 people were killed.

Overnight, Israeli jeeps roamed around Arafat's Ramallah headquarters of Arafat .

The jeeps approached the entrance of the compound and left several minutes later.

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot inside press conference

2. Rice and Abbas entering room

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:

"I have said to the president (Abbas) that if the parties work very hard now on the Wolfensohn agenda that there is an agreement in sight because they, with enough will and creativity I believe this issues can be resolved and we talked about some of those aspects. We talked about the need to support the democratic process here in the Palestinian territories, and also the need to condemn and fight terror. It is a roadmap obligation of the Palestinian Authority to fight terror and to dismantle the infrastructure of terror."

5. Wide shot presser

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

"The obstacles that are on the ground are still there and we are trying to overcome them. Today we have had thorough discussions and have reached an agreement on the issues concerning the Gaza Strip. We hope that this a positive opening to all our people in Gaza because freedom of movement is very important and this will help the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip."

7. Cutaway

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:

"The murder of Rafik Hariri is of course not something that the United States is investigating but that the United Nations is investigating. It is being investigated under the Security Council resolution because it appears, according to Mr Melles's interim report that the security services of one state may have been involved in the murder of the prime minister of another state, and that is very serious charge and it has to be taken seriously and it has to be fully investigated. I would just note that there is 150 US Security Council resolution that was sponsored by United States, France and the Great Britain to compel Syrian cooperation with the Melles investigation, but Mr Melles is of course not the investigator appointed by United States but it is the investigator appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, may I just note that is extremely important that Syria cooperate, they are increasing their isolation if they refuse to cooperate because these are very serious charges."

9. Various of Rice and Abbas shaking hands and leaving the room

STORYLINE:

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continued an intensive round of diplomacy in the Middle East on Monday.

After meeting the Palestinian leader in Ramallah, she said that an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on easing restrictions on a Gaza Strip border crossing was "in sight."

Reducing restrictions on the movement of cargo from Gaza into Israel, and opening the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt are considered crucial to efforts to revive the economy of the impoverished coastal strip.

Rice said that the US supports the "democratic process here in the Palestinian territories" , adding that it is part of the roadmap obiligations of the "Palestinian Authority to fight terror and to dismantle the infrastructure of terror."

Referring to freedom of movement in and out of Gaza, Abbas said, "The obstacles that are on the ground are still there and we are trying to overcome them."

In response to a question about the U.N. probe into the assassination of

former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Rice said it's "extremely important" for Syria to cooperate in Hariri probe.

Rice made the remarks at the joint news conference with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.

Earlier on Monday she met Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.

Later Rice will attend the memorial service of Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Prime Minister who was assassinated 10 years ago, November, 1995.

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JERUSALEM: French Foreign Minister, Claude Cheysson,

arrives to prepare for French President Francois

Mitterrand's visit in February.

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ISRAEL

Jerusalem

SHOWS: Cheysson's motorcade arrives at Israeli

Foreign Ministry; Cheysson and Shamir alone in

Shamir's office; intercut of cameramen; both FM's

walking to conference room; both ministerial teams

sitting across conference table; Cheysson enters

King David Hotel lobby; Cheysson chatting with

opposition's former PM, Yitzhak Rabin; Israeli

FM raising glass for after dinner toast; Cheysson

responding with 45 second soundbite.

CAS ex VID(525): 2.28mins

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CHEYSSON, ClaudeFrench Foreign Minister

SHAMIR, MrIsraeli Foreign Minister

RABIN, YitzhakFormer Israeli PM

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