(29 Aug 2003)
Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus, West Bank
1. Various of tanks
2. Various of soldiers in the streets
3. Soldier climbing through a hole knocked in the wall of a house
4. Soldiers and Palestinians looking at damage
5. Various of damage
6. Palestinians looking at damage
7. Various of tanks in the streets
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip
8. Wide shot of funeral procession
9. Mourners carrying body wrapped in a Hamas flag
10. Mourners carrying the body
Tel Aviv, Israel
11. Senator Sam Brownback arriving
12. Pan from Brownback and Senator Lincoln Chafee to Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom
13. Close up of Chafee
14. Shalom and senators shake hands
Jerusalem
15. Palestinian Muslims outside Old City
16. Police watching
17. Muslims praying in the street
STORYLINE:
Israeli troops combed the Balata refugee camp on the edge of Nablus on Friday as part of a weeklong search for militants in the West Bank's largest city.
Swinging sledgehammers, troops broke through walls to move from house to house, a technique used to cut down on soldiers' exposure to possible gunfire.
Balata is a stronghold of armed groups.
Soldiers caused considerable damage to several homes during the operation, demolishing walls, overturning furniture and breaking household goods.
In the Gaza Strip, hundreds of mourners walked through Khan Younis Friday, calling for revenge as they carried the body of 23-year-old Hamdi Kalakh.
Kalakh's body was wrapped in a Hamas flag.
The militant was killed late on Thursday when an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at his donkey cart, the fourth lethal airstrike on a Hamas target in a week.
Hamas leaders have promised revenge for the Israeli strikes, which began after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 21 people on a bus in Jerusalem on August 19.
The Israeli army said Kalakh was responsible for mortar, rocket and bomb attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
In Tel Aviv, US Senators Lincoln Chafee and Sam Brownback met Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Friday as part of a five-day mission to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.
The trip is sponsored by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Chafee is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs with jurisdiction over all Middle East issues.
In Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinians were forced to pray on the streets outside the walls of the Old City on Friday.
The Muslims were prevented from going to Haram as-Sharif, or Temple Mount as it is known to Jews, after police received a warning that a demonstration was being organised.
In the past Palestinians have thrown stones at Jews praying. Violent clashes have often erupted in the maze like streets surrounding the disputed holy site.
The shrine is revered by Jews as the site of biblical Jewish temples and by Muslims as the spot where Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.
It is a potent symbol of rival claims on Jerusalem.
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