(15 Aug 2009)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 15 August 2009
1. Various of mosque, gun battle between Hamas and Islamic militants, occasional flares and flashes seen, AUDIO: Heavy gunfire
++DAYSHOTS++
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 14 August 2009
2. Wide shot of leader of "Jund Ansar Allah" (means: Soldiers of the Companions of God) Abdel-Latif Moussa surrounded by the organisation's militants inside mosque just before fighting erupted
3. Medium of leader Abdel-Latif Moussa with militants
4. Pan of followers to Abdel-Latif Moussa
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - August 15 2009
5. Set up shot of Taher Nunu, Hamas government spokesman
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taher Nunu, Hamas government spokesman
"We confirm that he (Abdel-Latif Moussa) blew himself up. Some of our security services tried to talk to him and when one of the officers approached him to appeal for his surrender, he blew himself up and the people around him."
7. Nunu walks out of office
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 15 August 2009
8. Mosque, gun battle between Hamas and Islamic militants, AUDIO: Heavy gunfire
Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 15 August 2009
9. Set up shot of Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza:
"A total of 24 people were killed since yesterday from those who were taken to the Palestinian health ministry hospitals: Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital, the European hospital and Khan Younis hospital. Another 125 people were injured, 20 of them are in a critical condition."
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 14 August 2009
11. Wide of explosion in a house in area of gun battle, smoke rising from house as explosion heard
Ramallah, West Bank, 15 August 2009
12. Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator, arriving getting out of car
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator:
"Its very alarming and very dangerous what is taking place in Gaza, these clashes and these fights, more than 22 dead. Gaza is going down the drain in chaos and lawlessness."
14. Erekat getting into car
Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 15 August 2009
15. Wide of Hamas policemen at checkpoint in Gaza city
16. Hamas security checking cars
17. Wide of Hamas policemen at checkpoint
STORYLINE:
Hamas officials said the leader of a militant group in the Gaza Strip blew himself up during a shootout on Saturday with security forces that killed at least 24 people.
The fighting erupted on Friday when Hamas security men surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egypt border where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were holed up.
Flares lit up the sky overnight as Hamas machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades slammed into the mosque.
The militants inside returned fire with automatic weapons and grenades of their own.
Government officials said the head of the radical Islamic group, Abdel-Latif Moussa, detonated an explosives vest he was wearing when fighting resumed after dawn Saturday.
"Some of our security services tried to talk to him and when one of the officers approached him to appeal for his surrender, he blew himself up and the people around him," said Taher Nunu, a Hamas government spokesman.
Hospital officials said a total of 24 people, including six Hamas police officers and an 11-year-old girl, were killed in the violence.
Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said another 125 people were injured, and that 20 of them were in a critical condition.
"Gaza is going down the drain in chaos and lawlessness," he told the AP.
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