(19 Jun 2003) SHOTLIST
1. Israeli troops arriving on foot
2. Pan of fire burning on hillside
3. Wide shot of fire around building
4. Various of settlers scuffling with troops near military armoured personnel carrier (APC)
5. Wounded settler being carried away on stretcher
6. Settlers climbing onto military APCs, scuffling with soldiers
7. Various of hand to hand struggles between protesters and soldiers
8. Troops dragging protesters away
9. Wide shot of scene
10 Various of troops carrying parts of dwelling away
11. Cutaway to soldiers watching from vehicle
12. Various scuffles as troops try to remove dwelling
13. Man being carried on stretcher by soldiers who try to block camera
14. Wideshot of scene
STORYLINE
Angry Jewish settlers clashed with soldiers and police trying to dismantle the West Bank settlement outpost of Mitzpeh Yitzhar on Thursday.
The year-old camp was the first inhabited outpost being removed under a new US-backed peace plan.
It consisted of four tents and two makeshift buildings of corrugated metal and concrete and had about 10 residents.
But about 200 people from nearby Jewish settlements converged on the hilltop, blocking the road leading to Mitzpeh Yitzhar with cars, burning tyres and sharp objects to hinder the authorities.
Settlers also set fire to underbrush and threw purple paint on armoured bulldozers, limiting the visibility of the soldiers trying to make their way to the hilltop.
Between 300 and 400 soldiers, border police and civilian police finally made it to the camp, where they got into running fistfights with the protesting settlers, bloodying some of them.
The soldiers and police were mainly unarmed, most of them carrying only the knives they needed to remove the settlers' tents.
As part of the "road map" peace plan, which envisions the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005, Israel must take down unauthorised outposts in the West Bank set up over the last two years.
The Peace Now group, which opposes settlements, says there are 62 such outposts and a total of more than 100 set up since 1996.
Settler leaders have sued the government to prevent removal of inhabited outposts, but courts have rejected many of their arguments.
Mitzpeh Yitzhar is the first inhabited outpost to be dismantled, 10 uninhabited outposts were removed last week.
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