(8 Jul 2004)
Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip
1. Wide of Israeli soldier walking alongside Palestinian children, pull out to Palestinian men running
2. Israeli armoured bulldozer disappearing around a corner
3. Wide of Israeli soldier firing from a tank, camera wobbling, Palestinians on the run, AUDIO of gunfire
4. Bulldozer manoeuvring
5. Pan of gunfight, Palestinians hiding, AUDIO of gunfire
6. Wide of Palestinian men watching combats
7. Various of ambulance standing by
8. Wide of Israeli tank standing by Palestinian houses
9. Israeli armoured bulldozer manoeuvring
10. Various of Palestinians looking from their balconies
11. Wide of empty street
Gaza City
12. People outside Shifa Hospital after fighting in Beit Hanoun
13. Interiors of morgue and man examining bodies
14. Various of dead bodies in morgue
15. Man in bed at hospital
Khan Younis, southern Gaza
Night Shots
16. Vehicle arriving
17. Wounded being wheeled into hospital
18. Various of wounded in bed
Day Shots
19. Wide of destroyed houses in Khan Younis
20. Various shots of Palestinians walking on rubble of destroyed houses
Ramallah, West Bank
21. Yasser Arafat leaving his offices with European commission official John Bernicci after meeting
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader:
"In Beit Hanoun and Khan Younis it is a real massacre, as you are following it. They are using their Apache (helicopters) they are using their tanks, their helicopters, they are using their rockets. They are using every... all their armaments against our people, and they are speaking about peace? And they are destroying the peace through these massacres, going in Gaza and the West Bank? In Jenin, Nablus, what is going this massacre also in the old city of Nablus, in Qalqiliyah, in Tulkarem, every place."
23. Arafat with officials
24. Wide exterior Arafat's offices
STORYLINE:
Israeli troops moved in to Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing at least seven Palestinians, including the local commander of the Hamas militant group, the Israeli army said.
Armoured Israeli bulldozers also destroyed dozens of olive and orange trees and razed land along the eastern side of the town.
Palestinian officials said five militants, including Hamas commander Nahed Abu Ouda, were killed, a middle-aged man and a 35-year-old woman also died.
The Israeli army said one of its soldiers was seriously wounded and that eight Palestinians had been killed or wounded.
Palestinian witnesses reported seeing dead and wounded lying in the streets of Beit Hanoun, but they could not be evacuated due to the fierce fighting.
Speaking at his headquarters in Ramallah, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the operation as a "massacre".
It was the deadliest violence in Beit Hanoun since the Israeli army invaded the area early last week after militants fired a barrage of homemade rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot, killing two people, including a three-year-old boy.
The deaths were the first in a Palestinian rocket attack from Gaza since fighting erupted nearly four years ago.
Palestinian militants and the army said the homemade rockets had been upgraded to make them deadlier.
Meanwhile, Israeli armoured vehicles and bulldozers raided the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza early on Thursday, partially or completely destroying 30 houses and wounding at least four Palestinians.
The army said the operation was aimed at destroying abandoned buildings used by militants to fire mortars and other weapons at Israeli targets.
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