(22 Dec 2006) SHOTLIST
Nablus, West Bank - 22 December 2006
1. Gunmen in street, AUDIO: gunfire
2. Masked gunmen shooting and hiding behind rubbish containers
3. Various of gunmen in street
4. Man walking in street
5. Gunman shooting in street
6. Wide of members of the Popular Front party marching
Gaza City, 22 December 2006
++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Gaza City skyline AUDIO: gunfire
8. Exterior of Dar al-Shifa hospital
9. Various of people outside the hospital, man shouting
10. Man weeping
11. Dead body, of a bystander killed when two Hamas militants were kidnapped late on Thursday night, being brought to hospital
12. Body inside morgue
13. Relatives gathering around body
14. Relatives outside morgue
15. Mid of hospital sign, reading (in Arabic): "Ministry of Health, Dar al-Shifa Hospital"
16. Wide of hospital
Gaza City, 22 December 2006
17. Various of mosque
18. Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, arriving at mosque
19. Security forces and children standing at entrance to mosque
20. Member of security forces outside mosque
21. Haniyeh walking out of mosque
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian Prime Minister:
"We are ready to begin discussions for a unity government on the basis of Palestinian conditions."
23. Mid shot of mosque
STORYLINE :
Ferocious gunbattles broke out between Hamas and Fatah militants in the Gaza Strip and West Bank early on Friday, underscoring the fragility of a new truce between the rival factions.
Witnesses and medics said gunmen clashed in the West Bank town of Nablus near a football stadium where Hamas supporters were preparing for a rally.
Palestinian medics said a bystander was wounded in the crossfire.
Terrified residents huddled in their homes.
Shortly after the gunfight began, members of the Popular Front party took to the streets in protest of the clashes.
They appealed through loudspeakers to Nablus residents to get outside and separate Hamas and Fatah.
Earlier in Gaza City a brief but ferocious gunbattle between the two factions broke out before dawn.
The new factional violence erupted in Gaza after two Hamas militants, including a senior member of the Islamic group, were kidnapped late on Thursday night, security officials said.
The kidnappers fired assault rifles, killing a bystander, officials said.
The body of the bystander was taken to the Dar al-Shifa hospital.
Hamas blamed the kidnapping on a clan affiliated with Fatah that was trying to avenge the killing of two of its members in an earlier round of factional fighting.
That wave of violence, which broke out last week, killed 16 people and left dozens injured across Gaza, before a truce took effect on Tuesday night.
But the new violence broke out when Hamas militiamen tried to free the two kidnapped fighters and engaged in a firefight with the Fatah-affiliated militants behind the abductions, Hamas officials said.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, speaking after Friday prayers in Gaza City, said discussions for a National Unity government must be held according to conditions set by the Palestinians and not by the Middle East Quartet.
The Middle East Quartet, which is involved in mediating the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians, includes the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
"We are ready to begin discussions for a unity government on the basis of Palestinian conditions," Haniyeh said on Friday after prayers.
Tensions have been high since President Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to form a national-unity government collapsed in late November.
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