(11 Jan 2010) SHOTLIST
Egypt-Israel border, southern Israel
1. Various shots of border where Israel wants to construct fence
2. Zoom out of Egyptian border post building
3. Wide of Egyptian border guard
4. Various shots of border area
5. Mid shot of Egyptian border guard
6. Military jeep passing by
Tel Aviv
7. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister:
"To prevent the movement of weapons, drug smuggling, labour migration - some of those may be combined - and of course for preventing the terror activity, the state of Israel needs a fence in that region. I said that 10 years ago."
Egypt-Israel border, southern Israel
8. Various shots of border area where Israel wants to construct fence
Tel Aviv
9. Establishing shot of Amnesty International, Israel director, Itay Epstein
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Itay Epstein, Amnesty International Israel director:
"We recognise the fact that Israel can''t secure its borders but we must assure that whatever instruments are put in place they comply with international law and the obligations Israel has towards the refugees and asylum seekers. Whether Israel builds up a fence on its southern border, it must put in place installations that will allow access to refugees and asylum seekers."
11. Wide of Epstein in office
Egypt-Israel border, southern Israel
12. Various shots of Egyptian border post
13. Wide of Israeli border post
14. "No Entry" sign at border
15. Wide of Israeli border post
16. Mid of Israeli border guards
17. Pull out from Egyptian guard tower to wide
18. Tracking shot of border
STORYLINE
Israel''s prime minister has ordered the construction of two massive fences along the long and porous southern border with Egypt, saying he wants to stem a growing flood of African asylum seekers and to prevent Islamic militants from entering the country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement the structure would help preserve Israel''s Jewish majority, while providing a layer of protection along an open border with an area suspected of having an al-Qaida presence.
"I decided to close Israel''s southern border to infiltrators and terrorists after prolonged discussions," he said in a statement.
"This is a strategic decision to ensure the Jewish and democratic character of the state of Israel. Israel will remain open to war refugees but we cannot allow thousands of illegal workers to infiltrate into Israel via the southern border and flood our country," he said.
Earlier, the Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak echoed that statement.
The two fences will cover nearly half of the 150-mile (250-kilometre) border.
One section will be near the Red Sea port of Eilat. The other will be in southwest Israel, near the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
Government spokesman Mark Regev said government ministers approved the plan on Sunday evening.
He said a date hasn''t been set for construction and it is unclear how long it would take to complete the fences.
The project is expected to cost about 400 (m) million US dollars, according to local media reports.
The structure would come in addition to a massive fence surrounding the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, as well as a separation barrier that snakes along parts of Israel''s more than 400-mile (680-kilometre) frontier with the West Bank, biting into chunks of the territory as it runs, drawing both Palestinnian and international condemnation.
Egypt has its own fence along Gaza''s southern border, and is reinforcing the area with underground metal plates to shut down tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons into Gaza.
Israel requested Egypt tighten its border patrols.
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