(13 Mar 2011) SHOTLIST
Beta, Northern West Bank - 13 March 2011
1. Wide of Itamar settlement
2. Israeli soldiers at entrance of the mostly Palestinian village of Awarta, which is under curfew
3. Wide shot of settlement and Palestinian villages around
Jerusalem - 13 March 2011
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Infrastructures Minister:
"An immediate natural response to those terrorist activities, which are there in order to intimidate us in our communities to just buckle under terror and stop building, the immediate response will be definitely to build more, have more communities in Judea and Samaria. Terror must understand here that it doesn't pay off."
FILE: Modiin Ilit, West Bank - 23 September 2010
5. Wide shot of West Bank barrier
6. Wide of excavator working with settlement in background
7. Pan of Modiin Ilit settlement and construction work
8. Various of construction work
Ramallah, West Bank - 13 March 2011
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nabil Abu Rdeneh, Aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas:
"The issue of incitement should be stopped from everybody. We consider the settlement activities is the real incitement, we hope that Israel will understand that this unacceptable issue should be stopped. This is the only way to bring peace and stability to the Middle East. We are against any violence, we are for peace, we are for negotiations, the only obstacle is this kind of incitement which we call settlement activities."
10. Cutaway of Palestinian flag
FILE: Ariel, West Bank, 23 September 2010
11. Wide shot of Ariel settlement
12. Zoom out from Mosque in distance to Ariel settlement
STORYLINE
Israel said Sunday it has approved hundreds of settler homes after five members of an Israeli family - including three children - were killed as they slept in a West Bank settlement over the weekend.
The attack and the government's response threatened to drive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking even further out of reach.
Israel, which blames the attack on Palestinian militants, is liable to set aside an emerging peace initiative it had planned to propose, while the planned construction of new settler homes was likely to only deepened Palestinian mistrust of Israel.
The settlement construction, approved Saturday night by the Cabinet's ministerial team on settlements, would take place in major West Bank settlement blocs that Israel expects to hold on to in any final peace deal, the prime minister's office said in a text message to reporters.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under domestic pressure to respond harshly to the killings, is a member of that team.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to release this information to the media, said between 300 and 500 apartments and homes were approved for construction.
Palestinian opposition to settlement construction on lands they want for a future state has brought negotiations to a virtual standstill over the past two years, with Palestinians refusing to negotiate directly with Israel as long as it persists.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to stop settlement activity, which he sees as "the only obstacle" to peace.
Israeli Infrastructures Minister, Uzi Landau said the approval sent a serious message to those seeking to "intimidate us in our communities to just buckle under terror and stop building."
"The immediate response will be definitely to build more, have more communities in Judea and Samaria," he said
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