(2 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
East Jerusalem
1. Wide of east Jerusalem, Al Aqsa in distance
2. Mid of Al Aqsa
3. Various of police and security in streets
4. Police pass on horseback
5. Various of police and security
6. Police at barrier
7. Police walking up street
Jerusalem
8. Wide of Al Aqsa compound during prayers
9. Security on street
10. Zoom into people on roof of building
11. People kneeling, holding prayers
Israeli side of Bethlehem crossing
12. Various of closed crossing
13. Israeli soldiers at crossing, zoom into wall
14. Wide pan of barrier wall
STORYLINE:
Israel forces tightened the security measures around the old city of Jerusalem on Friday, fearing clashes may erupt as hundreds of Palestinians arrived to attend prayers at the city's Al aqsa mosque.
The Israeli operation in Gaza has spilled over to Jerusalem and the West Bank several times since Israel begun its offensive last Saturday, when angry Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces and and demonstrated against Israel's actions in Gaza.
Friday was the seventh day of an Israeli offensive in Gaza and the day after a deadly strike killed a prominent Hamas figure.
Officials said thousands of police would be deployed throughout the city, and only Palestinian men over the age of 50, along with women of all ages, would be permitted to enter.
Earlier on Friday, Israel destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives and bombed one of its mosques on the Gaza Strip.
Israel launched the aerial campaign last Saturday in a bid to halt weeks of intensifying Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza.
The offensive has dealt a heavy blow to Hamas, but has failed to halt the rocket fire.
New attacks Friday struck apartment buildings in a southern Israeli city. No serious injuries were reported.
More than 400 Gazans have been killed and some 1,700 have been wounded in the Israeli campaign, Gaza health officials said.
The number of combatants and civilians killed is unclear, but Hamas has said around half of the dead are members of its security forces and the UN has said more than 60 are civilians, 34 of them children.

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