(20 Dec 2008) SHOTLIST
Near Beit Lahiya
1. Wide of paramedics carrying body of Palestinian killed by Israeli airstrike on stretcher UPSOUND Siren
2. Body being loaded into ambulance
3. Paramedics collecting remains at scene of airstrike
4. Piece of rocket at scene
5. Wide of paramedics at scene
Beit Lahiya
6. Ambulances arriving at hospital
7. Body being carried into hospital
8. Various of people gathered around body in hospital morgue
Beit Lahiya
9. Masked militant fires gun in air outside morgue
10. Mourners, some armed, carrying body away from morgue
11. Mourners marching with raised guns, chanting "Allah"
12. Wide pan of funeral procession
13. Close as body is carried through alley
14. Women wailing
15. Women kissing face of dead Palestinian
16. Close of little girl crying
17. Woman crying on floor with other mourners attempting to help her stand up
18. Body being carried out of house
Gaza City
19. Various skyline shots of Gaza City, one day after Israel-Hamas truce ended
20. Top shot of traffic with green Hamas flags hanging across street
21. Top shot of intersection
STORYLINE
An Israeli air strike on Saturday against a Gaza rocket squad killed a Palestinian militant, the first death since Hamas militants formally declared an end to a six-month truce with Israel.
Gaza medics removed the body of one man from the scene near Beit Lahiya.
The Israeli army said the militants had fired three rockets and four mortars into Israel. There were no reports of damages.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, identified the dead man as one of its fighters.
Ruling Gaza group Hamas said it fired the mortars.
Later on Saturday a funeral procession took place in Beit Lahiya, with the body of the militant carried through the streets as masked militants chanted and fired into the air.
The man was the first person to be killed since Gaza's Hamas leaders said this week they will not extending an unwritten, often-breached truce with Israel.
In a statement posted on its Web site, Hamas said Israel had breached agreements by imposing a painful economic blockade on Gaza, staging military strikes into the densely populated coastal strip and continuing to hunt down Hamas operatives in the West Bank.
Israel and Egypt closed Gaza's borders after the violent takeover of the territory by Hamas in June 2007.
Since November, Israel has tightened the blockade in an attempt to halt rocket fire on Israeli border towns by Gaza militants.
There was no immediate Israeli reaction to Hamas' announcement that it would not extend the cease-fire past its end on Friday.
Israel said previously that the six-month-old truce, brokered by Egypt, didn't have an official expiration date and that the government was interested in prolonging "understandings" with Hamas.
Hamas is listed as a "terrorist organisation" by Israel, the United States and much of the international community and Israel does not officially have direct contacts with it.
Though violence and casualties dropped significantly under the cease-fire agreement, the truce has increasingly unravelled since early November, when Israeli soldiers entered Gaza to destroy a tunnel that the army said could have been used in a cross-border raid.
In response, Palestinian militants resumed firing rockets at Israel.
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