(30 Jan 2007)
1. Wide of crowds gathered around body of Emil Haim al Maliah, victim of suicide bomb attack
2. Pan across funeral guests
3. Body wrapped in Israeli flag, surrounded by crowds
4. Close-up of crying woman
5. Men carrying covered out of synagogue
6. Mid of men carrying body
7. Wide of bakery damaged by Monday's suicide bomb attack
8. Close-up of two men talking at the scene
9. Tilt down of bombed out bakery
10. People lighting candles in front of bakery
11. Close-up of candles
12. Various of damage
13. Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz getting out of car
14. Peretz being shown the scene
15. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew): Amir Peretz, Israeli Defence Minister:
"We consider this (attack) a step up in violence. What happened in Eilat is very severe, and we intend to initiate preventive actions, we have no intention to let go the organisers, activists and attackers, we will check the roads leading to Eilat and the ways to prevent such attacks."
16. Peretz looking at damaged bakery
17. Wide pan of beach front
18. SOUNDBITE (English): Laurence, British tourist:
"It is the first time it has happened in Eilat, which is a shock to the residents who live here everyday. I am only here for two weeks, so I cannot speak for them, but there is no fear in my heart."
19. Wide of tourists in Eilat street
STORYLINE:
Hundreds attended the funeral of one of the victims of Monday's Palestinian suicide bombing in the southern Israeli coastal town of Eilat on Tuesday.
Grieving mourners gathered round the Israeli flag-covered body to pay their respects to 32-year-old Emil Haim al Maliah, one of the three who died on Monday.
In Monday's attack, a 20-year-old man from Gaza, blew himself up at a bakery in Eilat, a normally tranquil Red Sea resort located at Israel's southern tip near the Jordanian and Egyptian borders, killing three people and himself.
A separate funeral for the second victim of the attack, Michael Saadon, was held in in Acre, north Israel.
The third victim, Yisrael Zalmalloa, is yet to be laid to rest.
Two radical groups that claimed responsibility for sending the bomber said they were trying to end weeks of Palestinian infighting by aiming their weapons at Israel instead.
Israeli leaders condemned the bombing, saying it jeopardised a two-month truce in Gaza, and retaliated Tuesday by ordering an airstrike on a tunnel dug by Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border, officials said.
"What happened in Eilat is very severe, and we intend to initiate preventive actions. We have no intention to let go the organisers, activists and attackers," said Peretz on Tuesday, during a visit to the site of the attack.
Later on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided not to escalate Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.
Olmert met on Tuesday afternoon with top military officials to discuss Israel's response to the suicide bombing and decided to refrain from a new round of attacks in Gaza and continue to observe a cease-fire agreed to with the Palestinians in November, Israeli media reported.
Through six years of Palestinian-Israeli conflict and 130 suicide attacks, Monday's attack was the first to hit Israel's southern-most city, separated by more than 100 miles (200 kilometres) of desert from the nearest city.
Separated from Israel's largest cities, it has been largely immune from Israeli-Palestinian fighting and is a popular getaway for Israelis.
Although one British tourist AP Television spoke didn't seem too worried about carrying on with his holiday.
"There is no fear in my heart," said Laurence, a British tourist.

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