(27 Oct 2004)
Jerusalem
1. Vote taking place in Knesset
2. Various people voting
3. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon being congratulated
4. Settlers demonstrating outside Knesset
5. Settlers with placards
6. Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud minister
7. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud minister:
"We decided, a group of ministers and Knesset members to allow the Prime Minister to present a referendum in two weeks, or else we do not see ourselves continuing with this government."
Q: Are you resigning at the end of 14 days?
"Indeed."
Neve Dekalim, Gush Katif
8. Settler family watching TV
9. Various shots of settlers
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tzila Goldstein, settler:
"This is our home. Our children were brought up here, have been born here and this is where we want to stay. Now we just have to see what happens after this voting."
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
11. Gaza streets
12. Hamas spokesman Sammi Abu Zuhri watching Knesset vote
12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sammi Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman in Gaza:
"We consider this result a victory for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance."
Ramallah, West Bank
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ghassan Khatib, Palestinian Minister of Labour:
"This voting and in the Israeli Knesset is not a significant development as far as the Palestinian and the peace process is concerned because it's not going to move things to replacing the present violence with peace negotiations."
14. Khatib
STORYLINE:
Reactions to the historic session in Israel's parliament were swift and varied on Tuesday evening.
Jewish settlers, Palestinian ministers and residents of Gaza City expressed their views on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
The vote marked the first time parliament authorised the removal of Jewish settlements from lands the Palestinians claim for a state.
Despite last-minute attempts by opponents to derail the vote, Sharon won by a comfortable margin of 67 in favour, 45 against and seven abstentions.
Sharon has hoped a strong victory would help him deflect pressure to hold a national referendum on the plan.
Sharon won on Tuesday with the help of dovish opposition parties.
Many members of his centre-right coalition, as well as religious opposition parties, voted against him.
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