(16 Sep 2001)
Ramallah - NIGHT SHOTS
1. Flares in the air over Ramallah
2. Israeli shells being fired towards Ramallah
3. Helicopters above the city
Ramallah - DAY SHOTS
4. Various of shell holes in hit buildings
5. Women hugging each other
6. Various of sofas and furniture covered in rubble
7. Youths gathered in street where shell hit
8. Various of destroyed cars
9. Man enters hospital emergency room
10. Relatives looking at body of relative under sheet
11. Onlookers gathered around patch of blood on rocks
12. Close up of blood
13. Various of shot up Palestinian roadside security post
Bethlehem, September 15
14. Ambulance with shattered windshield and shrapnel holes, zoom in to large shrapnel hole in the bonnet
15. Various of damaged ambulance
16. Wounded man with bloody face placed on stretcher
17. Another wounded man is carried into hospital on stretcher and lowered
18. Close up of man being treated for injuries and looking in pain, doctore lift off his shirt
19. Wounded man having stitches placed in injury in face
20. Ambulance worker hitting hand against hospital wall in anguish
21. Ambulance worker crying loudly saying "Why, oh God why?" and being comforted by colleague
Jersusalem, September 15 - NIGHT SHOTS
22. Various of shot up Israeli van
23. Israeli security experts examining van
24. Wide shot of scene
STORYLINE :
Israeli army forces entered Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank city of Ramallah for a few hours early on Sunday and a Palestinian was killed in an exchange of gun fire.
The Israeli incursion came in response to a shooting attack in Jerusalem that killed one Israeli and moderately injured another, the army said.
A car carrying the attackers was seen fleeing toward Ramallah, Israeli police said.
The further escalation in nearly a year of hostilities came as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cancelled a meeting between his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
The meeting had tentatively been set for Sunday.
The United States wants truce talks to calm tensions in the Middle East, and US President George Bush called Sharon on Friday to press the point.
The Israeli-Palestinian violence could hamper US efforts to build an anti-terrorism coalition of Arab states in response to the attack on the United States last week that killed thousands.
Seven Israeli tanks and two attack helicopters that entered Ramallah early on Sunday shelled Palestinian police checkpoints, a building belonging to Palestinian intelligence and three houses, Palestinian security officials said.
One Palestinian, Ali al-Yaseany, 26, was killed and 12 others injured, the Palestinian security said.
Israel said its forces arrested a few Palestinians in the operation.
Israeli military officials said the exchange of fire in Ramallah caused Israeli casualties.
The incursion into Ramallah was one of several such Israeli operations in Palestinian-controlled territory in the past week.
On Saturday, Israeli forces fired missiles on Palestinian security buildings in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a Palestinian attack in the area that injured two Israeli border policemen on Friday.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said the missile strikes were part of an Israeli effort to scuttle plans for his truce talks with Peres.
Three Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed on Saturday in two separate shooting incidents in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians said.
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