Breakout - Camp 23

Israeli soldiers kill five Palestinians in pinpoint raid

Jenin, West Bank
1. Wide of people at the hospital
2. Pan of two bodies in stretchers
3. Medical staff showing dead man
4. Medical staff undressing dead man
5. Wide of relatives waling and crying
6. Palestinians carrying bodies outside the hospital, UPSOUND (Arabic): God is great
7. Pan of car with bullet holes on the front screen
8. Holes on the side windows of car
9. Blood stains on the ground
10. Palestinian men carrying dead man on stretcher
11. Another dead man carried by Palestinians in procession

Jerusalem
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ranan Gissin, Israeli Government's spokesman:
Jenin as I said has become one of those places where terrorists launch their attacks and we are taking those preventive measures to prevent terrorists from being able to send those suicide bombers.
13. Mid shot of Gissin on the phone

STORYLINE

Israeli undercover units on Wednesday killed five Palestinians, at least four of them armed militants, in an apparent pinpoint raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian witnesses said.

The militants were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militia linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, Palestinians said.

The identity of the fifth body wasn't immediately known.

The militants, who were traveling in a blue Toyota, were killed in a brief gunfight, witnesses said.

The car was riddled with bullets and the Israeli troops immediately left the area after the shootout, they said.

The Israeli army said it had entered the town to arrest a number of Palestinian militants and shot four armed figures who had taken aim at the soldiers.

The army did not immediately know the conditions of the four and could not confirm whether they had been the targets of the operation.

The army frequently operates in Jenin, a centre of Palestinian militant activity.

Ranan Gissin, an Israeli government's spokesman, justified the attack as preventive measures to prevent terrorists from being able to send suicide bombers to Israeli targets.

The incident happened on the same day it was announced a long delayed summit between the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers.

It will be their first meeting since the Palestinian leader took office in October, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.


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