(24 Dec 2009)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
Near Shavei Shomron settlement, northern West Bank
1. Pan of street and vehicles near the scene where gunmen shot an Israeli man
2. Various of ambulances
3. Wide of military gathered on the road
4. Military trucks and ambulances with sirens blazing at the scene
Jerusalem
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mickey Rosenfeld, Israeli police spokesman:
"This is the first attack where an Israeli has been killed throughout the year 2009. It was relatively calm and quiet throughout the last several months, over the Jewish festivals, the Ramadan festival, but unfortunately today one Israeli has been killed after a terrorist attack here in Israel."
6. Rosenfeld walking away in front of exterior of police station
STORYLINE
Gunmen killed an Israeli man in a shooting attack in the West Bank on Thursday as local attention was focused on Christmas celebrations in nearby Bethlehem.
The assailants have not been caught but Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld called the incident a "terrorist attack".
Israel Radio identified the victim as a 45-year-old resident of a nearby Jewish settlement.
Shooting attacks were once commonplace on routes around the Israeli-occupied West Bank but have now become rare.
The Israeli military has kept many roads in the area off-limits to Palestinian drivers in restrictions imposed after similar attacks against Israelis.
The West Bank has been largely quiet in recent years, thanks both to action by Israel''s military against armed Palestinian groups and the
increasing control of security forces loyal to the moderate government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank as part of a future state, with east Jerusalem as their capital.
Settlements in the West Bank, and in east Jerusalem, are key sticking points in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed it, but no other country recognised that move.
About 180,000 Israelis live in neighbourhoods built around east Jerusalem. Israel insists that east Jerusalem is part of Israel and rejects efforts to restrict building there.
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