S6: Nablus | E1: Streets Of Nablus
Nestled in a valley between two striking, arid mountains, Mount Jarzim and Mount Etal, Nablus is very much the nerve centre of the upper West Bank. This beautiful, ancient city – known as the uncrowned Queen of Palestine – is heaving with life, but not yet with tourism. Its most famous exports are olive oil, soap, cotton and carob.
Nablus is a hotbed of Palestinian activism, tangible in the air as you navigate its heaving streets. Posters picturing martyrs, those who have died in the struggle against Israel, hang regularly on street corners alongside the Palestinian flag. This city conjures up a vivid picture of the heart of Palestine.
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WEST BANK: YARAFAT APOLOGISES FOR RAID ON STUDENTS IN NABLUS
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has apologised for a police raid on university students last week in Nablus.
Arafat told a crowd at the An-Najah university in Nablus that the crackdown, in which students were clubbed and tear-gassed, had been a mistake.
In a bid to try to restore his public image, Arafat also attended Friday prayers in the West Bank city.
Friday's visit to Nablus, the West Bank's largest city, was an attempt by the Palestinian leader to restore his flagging public image.
It came after a number of Arafat's supporters joined protests against his rule following last week's violent police raid on An-Najah university.
Police said the raid was part of a crackdown on supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas.
More than 900 followers were arrested, and Arafat acknowledged Friday the raid got out of hand when police used tear gas and clubs against the students, injuring five.
He called the episode a mistake and asked a crowd of 500 gathered at the university to forgive and forget.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
There might be a mistake from this side or from that side, but if you my dear brothers do not put up with our mistakes who else will put up with them? So all of us here we make mistakes, but the best ones (people) are those who repent after making their mistakes.
SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
Despite his jovial attitude, Arafat still received angry questions from the crowd - a carefully screened group of university employees, boy scouts and members of the student council.
Arafat is also trying to boost his public image - with his Palestinian Authority facing huge financial problems because of the Israeli enforced closure on the West Bank and Gaza.
Under tight security he joined a prayer session at a local mosque in Nablus.
The closure on the West Bank has effectively barred thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel.
It was imposed after a week of suicide bombings by Islamic militants in Israel which left 58 people dead.
The Palestinian Authority claims the closure is costing their economy six (m) million dollars a day.
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Clashes with police in Nablus, and al-Aqsa mosque following prayers
(15 Dec 2017) Palestinian protesters scuffled with Israeli forces as fallout continues over President Donald Trump's announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital last week.
Following Muslim prayers on Friday, Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli troops who responded with tear gas in the West Bank.
In Nablus protesters hurled fire bombs at a water cannon spraying chemical solution used to disperse crowds.
Meanwhile, protesters in Jerusalem chanted slogans in support of Palestinian claims to the divided city
Palestinians have been clashing with Israeli troops across the West Bank and along the Gaza border since Trump's declaration. It departed from decades of U.S. policy that the fate of Jerusalem should be decided through negotiations.
East Jerusalem is home to sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites.
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Visit in Nablus, aerial of Jenin, comment in Ramallah
Nablus
1. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's helicopter on tarmac in Nablus
2. Various of Arafat leaving helicopter and greeting officials
3. Top of Arafat's motorcade arriving in Nablus
5. Arafat arriving in Nablus flanked by security
6. Arafat trowling on cement on debris
7. Arafat praying
7. Set up shot of Yasser Arafat
8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (non verbatim): We will have a Palestinian state, if the Israelis want it or not, and who ever has a problem with this can drink from the water of the Dead Sea.
9. Crowds around Arafat as he leaves to go to old city
10. Arafat picking up clothing left in attack
11. Crowd surrounding Arafat, chanting
Ramallah, West Bank
12. Arafat's helicopter arriving
13. Arafat getting out of helicopter
14. Arafat being greeted by pilot
15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
It's Jeningrad. I call it Jeningrad, like Stalingrad. Because there's a real tragedy here. Almost half of the camp has been totally demolished, and many people lost their lives.
16. Arafat walking away surrounded by security
Jenin, West Bank
17. People climbing over demolished building
18. People milling around shack with pictures of Arafat on it
19. Security guards on roof of partly demolished building
20. Palestinian woman looking out of window of partly demolished building
21. Arafat's helicopter in air, circling
22. Various of crowd looking up, cheering and waving
23. Wide shot of crowd gathered to see Arafat
24. Arafat's helicopter circling overhead
STORYLINE:
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rounded off a tour of the Palestinian towns and refugee camps hardest hit by Israel's six-week military operation against Palestinian militants with a visit to Nablus.
In Nablus, the Palestinian leader stopped for prayers in the remains of a mosque, damaged when Israeli shells slammed through the building during gun-battles.
With familiar defiance, he responded sharply after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered defeat when his party ignored his pleas and voted overwhelmingly to oppose Palestinian statehood.
Sharon has said Palestinian statehood was inevitable, but has proposed stringent restrictions that Palestinians reject as unacceptable.
Arafat also visited Bethlehem and Ramallah where he said it was his duty to visit Palestinian areas damaged by Israeli attacks.
The Palestinian leader said he was amazed to see the amount of damage in the three Palestinian towns he visited.
Arafat reportedly said the worst scene for him was Jenin, which he described as Jeningrad, although his helicopter failed to touch down there.
His helicopter circled to the battle-scarred Jenin refugee camp - but in a last minute change, he did not land.
Unconfirmed reports say security arrangements were not satisfactory.
Israel lifted the travel ban on Arafat as part of a US-brokered deal that ended a 34-day Israeli siege on the Palestinian leader's headquarters May 2.
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Funerals of Palestinian Nablus and Gaza car bombers.
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Nablus - 26 May 2001
1. Mourners walking through street with Palestinian flag
2. Gunmen firing in the air
3. Various of mourners
4. Body being carried through air
5. Mourners chanting and shouting
6. Gunmen shooting into the air
Gaza - 26 May 2001
7. Wide shot funeral for Hussein Abu Nasr - Hamas bomber who died on Friday
8. Procession with body being carried
9. Coffin being carried
10. Mourners carrying photos of Hussein Abu Nasr
11. People waving Palestinian and Hamas flags
12. Men shooting in the air
13. Various funeral procession to Mosque
STORYLINE:
Two funerals were held on Saturday - one for a Palestinian gunman who died when a ready-made bomb exploded during an arms deal in a Nablus refugee camp, the other for a Hamas bomber who died in Friday's truck
bombing in Gaza.
In Nablus on the West Bank, mourners buried Azzam Mizher, one of a number of gunmen from Balata involved in frequent confrontations with Israeli troops.
Mizher died in an explosion that also wounded four others when one of the men touched the ready-made bomb.
The Palestinian Authority accused Israel of involvement in the blast.
In recent months, Israel has killed several Palestinian militants in pinpointed attacks, including bombings.
But Israel denied involvement, saying the explosives apparently were meant for an attack on Israelis and went off prematurely.
The group stood near a red car parked in a street in Balata late on Friday, apparently conducting an arms deal, according to Palestinian security officials who said the group was handed a package containing a bomb by the arms dealer now in custody.
In another bombing Hamas suicide bomber Hussein Abu Nasr detonated his explosives near an Israeli army post in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
Hamas dedicated the suicide bombing to the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah on the anniversary of Israel's troop withdrawal from south Lebanon.
Hezbollah has provided increasing assistance to Islamic militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the past eight months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
Israeli security officials say Hezbollah has trained Hamas mortar crews that have fired dozens of shells at Israeli targets.
Hamas video taped Friday's truck bombing in Gaza and released the footage - a practice copied from Hezbollah, which often filmed its attacks on Israeli troops.
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Ramadan preps in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza
(10 Aug 2010)
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Wide of market
2. Woman buying vegetables
3. Various of Palestinians shopping at market
4. Stand selling traditional Ramadan sweets
5. Man buying fruit
6. Various of bakers preparing traditional bread
Jerusalem
7. Various of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
8. Zoom out from woman walking in Old City's alley to lit sign reading in Arabic: Happy Ramadan
9. Various of baker making traditional pastry
10. Wide of trays of traditional Ramadan sweets at bakery
11. Close of sweets
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nassar Hussein, shopper:
Not most of Muslims can (are) allowed to come to visit Jerusalem. Now we hear we have a new thing (rule) for (the) West Bank, I mean the people leaving in Hebron or Nablus, or Skhem (hebrew name for Nablus)..West Bank...not allowed to come everybody (not everybody are allowed) to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
13. Various of Israeli border policemen patrolling
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
15. Mid of market
16. Various of shoppers in market
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Tolba, market shopper:
The markets are full of goods but the prices are too high. On the other hand people do not have money, because a large proportion of the Palestinian people are unemployed and waiting for aid in Ramadan.
18. Close of festive lights flickering
19. People walking in market ++MUTE++
STORYLINE
Muslims in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza were preparing on Tuesday for the month-long fast of Ramadan.
Palestinians could be seen buying special groceries and festive sweets in the street markets of the West Bank, ready for the meals before and after each day of fasting.
During Ramadan, Muslims don't eat or drink during daylight hours.
In Gaza City, one shopper complained that the prices of the goods are too high.
People do not have money, he said, because a large proportion of the Palestinian people are unemployed and waiting for aid in Ramadan.
An Israeli-imposed blockade of the area was only lifted a few weeks ago.
Israel imposed the blockade after Hamas took control of the coastal territory three years ago.
It said the step was needed to prevent Hamas militants from bringing weapons into the area.
Under heavy international pressure, Israel eased the blockade after its troops clashed with activists aboard a flotilla trying to breach the Strip in May, killing nine.
However, Gaza residents complain that while they will be able to break their fast with treats now the blockade has been eased, no significant change is being felt.
The blockade brought Gaza's economy to a virtual standstill.
In Jerusalem, local residents were worried that Israeli restrictions during Ramadan will not allow Palestinians to travel from the West Bank to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites for Muslims.
An Israeli army spokesman said that a closure of the West Bank will not be imposed and that the restrictions on accessing Al-Aqsa Mosque are due to security considerations.
Access is limited to men over 50 and women over 45.
Muslims follow the lunar calendar, which is some 11 days shorter than the solar year, meaning the start date of Ramadan changes every year.
It also varies according to geography.
Ramadan is expected to start on Wednesday or Thursday in the Palestinian territories and Jerusalem, with the rising of the new crescent moon.
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A 21 old palestinian from Nablus visits Aqsa for the first time
Masjidul Aqsa is calling you. I met this young 21 year old Palestinian from Nablus who was fortunate indeed to visit Aqsa for the first time . Palestinians need a special permit to visit Aqsa . The brother who lives in Bethlehem was able to visit again after 2 years. The separation wall has blocked off free travel to Jerusalem
Millions are denied entry to visit Al Aqsa. Pray for Al Aqsa.
Al Aqsa is under occupation. Al Aqsa is in danger.
Nablus polling station, militant leader voting, Hebron
Nablus, West Bank
1. Wide shot West Bank city of Nablus
2. Mid shot of mosque's dome, pull out to wide shot Nablus
3. Wide shot Al Aqsa militants in street, some of them armed with riffles
4. Close-up Al Aqsa commander 'Abu Jihad' (man with moustache lighting a cigarette) with gunmen
5. Close-up on weapon
6. 'Abu Jihad' with gunmen walking through old city of Nablus
7. Wide shot of election observers outside polling station
8. Palestinian policemen talking to 'Abu Jihad' asking him to leave the weapons outside the polling station
9. 'Abu Jihad' re-entering polling station
10. Various of 'Abu Jihad' voting and leaving polling station
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): 'Abu Jihad', Al Aqsa brigades commander in Nablus:
I and the rest of the Al Aqsa Brigade will support Abu Mazen (referring to Mahmoud Abbas).
12. Wide of polling station
Hebron, West Bank
13. Wide shot of city
14. Wide shot of Mejid Abdel Majid Joulan walking past Israeli settlements in Hebron
15. Close-up man arriving at polling station
16. Pull-out of identity card reading Mejid Abdel Majid Joulani, 41 year-old voter
17. Another man voting
18. Close-up ballot box
STORYLINE:
The local commander of the militant Al Aqsa brigades (the armed branch of Fatah) in the West Bank city of Nablus cast his vote in the Palestinian presidential election early on Sunday.
'Abu Jihad' was escorted by gunmen to a polling station where his men were asked to leave their weapons at the door. 'Abu Jihad' expressed his support for Mahmoud Abbas, candidate of Abbas' ruling Fatah movement, who is expected to win easily.
Analysts said he would need a strong showing to push forward with his agenda of resuming peace talks with Israel and reforming the corruption-riddled Palestinian Authority.
Polls opened at 0700 (0500 GMT). Some 1.8 million Palestinians are eligible to vote. More than 2,800 ballot boxes were shipped Saturday to 1,077 polling stations in the West Bank and Gaza.
In the divided city of Hebron, voters started to arrive early in the morning to cast their ballots.
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: 350 THOUSAND MUSLIMS PRAY AT AL ASQA MOSQUE
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An estimated 350-thousand Muslim worshippers, prayed at the city's holiest Muslim shrine to mark the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Hundreds of police officers, sealed off streets ringing the Old City, where the Al Aqsa Mosque is located.
The extra security followed the discovery of a submachine gun and timers for bombs during Palestinian police raids on a hideout belonging to the militant Hamas group in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday night.
In the Old City, about 350-thousand worshippers, kneeled in the holiest Muslim shrine and many more prayed in alleys around it.
The 11-acre Al Aqsa Mosque compound was covered with rows and rows of worshippers who came from all over the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
At least two people fainted and were given first aid as the faithful pushed against each other and the walls in the alleys of the Old City.
Israeli security was tighter than on the previous three Fridays of Ramadan, a month of fasting from sunrise to sunset.
Israeli officials say they have received warnings that Islamic and Jewish extremists planned to carry out attacks during Ramadan.
More than 2-thousand Israeli police, some on horseback were deployed in the city, most around the Al Aqsa compound, known to Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Police sealed off streets outside the Old City, and helicopters circled above the worshippers.
In the West Bank city of Nablus Palestinian police found a submachine gun and timers for bombs when they raided a hideout belonging to the militant Hamas group Thursday night.
A Palestinian official confirmed that information obtained by the Israeli's earlier this week helped in locating the hideout.
The latest raid and arrests came as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was in Washington D-C where he met with U-S President Bill Clinton to discuss ways to put the Mideast peace process back on track.
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Nablus Sermon: People Who Normalize Relations with Israel Won't Be Among Muslims to Kill Jews
In an August 16, 2019 Friday sermon at the Kawthar Badran Mosque in Nablus, Palestinian Sheikh Muhammad Nour Malhas cited an antisemitic hadith that says that the Muslims will fight and kill the Jews on Judgement Day and that the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, which will call out to the Muslims to kill the Jews hiding behind them. Sheikh Nour pointed out that the hadith refers to servants of Allah, and he said that this serves to exclude hypocrites and Muslims who normalize relations with Israel. He added a prayer asking Allah to make the congregation from among His mujahideen and murabiteen.
Walking Holiday in Palestine
Whatever you choose to call it -- Palestine; the Palestinian Territories; the Holy Land; the West Bank -- this ancient land remains one of the most fascinating - and controversial - places on the planet. On this 9-day trip - and in contrast to many other trips in the region - our aim is to travel (predominantly on foot) with neither a political nor a religious agenda, but instead with the aim of gaining an insight into the everyday lives and rich culture of the Palestinian people and experiencing a rarely seen side of the Middle East. My name is Marc Leaderman, I run the Group Tours department at Wild Frontiers, and in this video I am going to explain a little more about our 'Wild Walk In Palestine'.
After transferring from Tel Aviv airport, the tour starts in the old city of Nablus with its medieval souk and then travels slowly south as we walk from village to village, staying mainly with local families. From the fertile valleys of ancient Samaria we then skirt along the edge of the Rift valley and head down below sea-level to the shores of the Dead Sea before finally making our way through the Judean desert and on to Bethlehem and finally Jerusalem.
For anyone that enjoys really getting below the surface of a country, this must rank as one of the very best tours that we offer. Not only do we get to walk and talk with a whole range of Palestinians eager to share their stories, but by actually staying in some of their homes we also get the chance to experience a little of their daily life and their wonderful food -- this is not a trip for those looking to lose weight! In addition, for a trip which actually covers only a relatively small distance, the variety of the scenery and the sights is quite astounding. On one day we might find ourselves wandering through olive groves & deserted Roman hilltop towns and then having lunch with some refugees; on another we might pass Byzantine era churches in a desert wadi before having dinner with some Bedouin in their camp.
This is not a major trekking trip, but on most days there'll be at least 3-4 hrs of walking. And in fact many of the paths we take form part of the so-called Abraham Trail which National Geographic in 2014 voted as one of the world's best new walks. But, as with all our wild walks, there is a lot more to this trip just walking, and whether it's eating knafeh (a baked cheese dessert, drenched in syrup) from a street seller in Nablus souk, sampling a beer from Palestine's only micro-brewery in Taybeh or walking the millennia-old streets of Jerusalem's old city, this trip is guaranteed to leave you with many lifelong memories.
Despite having led trips all over the world, this trip remains one of my all-time favourites and I would unreservedly recommend the Wild Walk in Palestine to anyone looking for something which offers a glimpse into this rarely visited...and rarely understood, yet utterly welcoming and eternally fascinating part of the world.
Clashes in West Bank city of Nablus
Palestinian men clashed with the troops throwing stones and setting fire to tyres.
“We don’t feel secure moving within the West bank from one city to another,” says one Palestinian man. “They attack us, destroy our cars. They are occupying our lands, and we are here to defend our country.”
Another Palestinian interview by euronews correspondent Shaikibrahim said:
“Our message to the Israelis is that we still exist in this land, and we will stay here, fighting them even with just one stone, as Arafat taught us, we were born in this land to resist.”
At least five were wounded, according to health authorities quoted by a Turkish news agency. Our correspondent managed to follow them to one of the hospitals.
“We have witnessed the clashes which erupted after the Israeli forces stormed several areas in Nablus,” remarks euronews correspondent Shaikibhrahim, “and it appears that their intention is to destroy the houses of the five Palestinians who carried out the attack on the Israeli couple.”
Palestine Stock Exchange thrives and grows
(10 May 2011)
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Ramallah, West Bank - March 29, 2002
1. Various of Israeli tanks in streets of Ramallah
2. Close of tank with Israeli flag with gun turret turning
Nablus, West Bank, - April 6, 2002
3. Wide of Nablus with tank passing
4. Wide of Nablus with smoke from explosion
5. Mid of masked Palestinians with guns behind sandbag defences
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Nablus, West Bank, - May 1, 2011
6. Wide of Nablus skyline
7. Wide of Nablus street
8. Wide of Palestinian Stock Exchange entrance foyer
Ramallah, West Bank, - April 25, 2011
9. Mid of Bank of Palestine with Palestinian Stock Market ticker on top of building
10. Close of sign in English and Arabic reading Palestinian Exchange
11. Close of trader at Lotus brokerage firm talking on the phone
12. Close of computer screen showing stock exchange listing during trade operations
13. Close of Palestinian Stock Exchange sign at entrance of Ramallah office
14. Mid of Ahmad Aweidah, CEO of the Palestine Exchange, working on computer
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Aweidah, CEO, Palestine Stock Exchange:
The stock exchange has been in business for the last 14 years. One can hardly say that the last 14 years in Palestine have been easy. We've survived. We've not only survived an Intifada and military incursions, very long curfews, the war on Gaza, the latest Arab Spring. Not only have we survived, we have thrived.
16. Various of construction work in Ramallah
17. Mid of ticker at Palestine Stock Exchange, Ramallah office
18. Close of ticker at Palestine Stock Exchange, Ramallah office
Nablus, West Bank, - May 1, 2011
19. Various of investors following trading operations on big screen
20. Close of man's hand clicking on worry beads
Ramallah, West Bank, - April 25, 2011
21. Wide of Ramallah city centre
22. Mid of man selling carob juice
23. Wide of traffic and people walking on the street
24. Close of woman and child buying ice cream
25. Various of reception to celebrate signing of agreement between Al-Aqariya Investment and Trading and Palestinian Stock Exchange
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Tawfik Habash, Vice Chairman, Al-Aqariya:
Although we went through a financial crisis worldwide we were able to maintain our price levels, the Palestinian Stock Exchange in general, for all equities, in spite of the problems we face in Palestine itself. And future expectations are even better than the past.
27. Mid of traders at Lotus broker firm trading stocks on computer
28. Various of computer screen showing stock exchange listing and trading in stocks
29. Wide of Lotus brokerage firm exterior
30. Close of sign reading Lotus Financial Investment
31. Mid of Lotus trader hanging up the phone
32. Close of computer screens showing stock exchange listing
33. Mid of Aissa Matouk and other local investor talking and watching trading operations on screen
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Aissa Matouk, investor, Palestine Stock Exchange:
These times, because there are troubles and so on everywhere - as you know in Egypt, Libya and Yemen and Syria and so on - it's not going very good. But at any rate, it is not bad also.
Nablus, West Bank, - May 1, 2011
35. Mid of reception desk at United brokerage firms
36. Various of investors following trading operations at United brokerage firm
Ramallah, West Bank, - April 25, 2011
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Aweidah, CEO, Palestine Stock Exchange:
You know, when the Stock Exchange started trading there were two companies listed on the exchange. Today we are 44. By the end of June we're going to be 46 and we hope we're going to be 50 by the end of this year.
38. Wide of Ramallah city centre
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Israel bans Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City after recent attacks
The Israeli government has barred Palestinians from entering the city of Old Jerusalem since Sunday, as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child.
The restrictions were put in place for two days with only Israelis, tourists, local residents, business owners and students allowed to enter the area.
Worship at the sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque was limited to men aged 50 and over. Some women, who were refused entry to the mosque, protested outside.
Israel's decision has annoyed Palestinians, who feel subject to discrimination.
I go there at least twice a week. So, after all those attacks that happened, they put a siege on Al-Aqsa. And, the Palestinians, such as young people like me, they can't go in. But, on the other hand, you can find the Israeli youth can go there, they can enter free, no problem, said Majd Awad, a Palestinian who holds an Israeli passport.
Awad said such action is the kind of thing that makes people so angry. Just because one or two or five people, even, did an attack, so you implement collective punishment, and no one can enter under the name of security. It doesn't work like this, he said.
Tensions have flared between Israelis and Palestinians in recent weeks, and much of the unrest has focused on Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, the location of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary.
Beyond the old city, Palestinian protesters threw stones at police and Israeli vehicles.
Political analysts say the reason for the recent conflict is clear.
Sixty five percent of our society are the youth generation. People between 18 years old to 25 years old. They were born under occupation. They woke up to see the atrocities of the Israelis. They [have] come to see the hate culture raising and no leadership, and no guidance, and no institutions. So, you have this frustration and anger, said Mahdi Abdul Hadi, senior political analyst. More on:
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Palestinian offices shelled, Israeli operation in Nablus, Rafah funeral
(30 Jun 2006)
Nablus, West Bank
1. Wide of Israeli army vehicles on main Nablus road
Nablus, West Bank
2. Israeli soldiers on street
3. Paramedics carrying body out of cemetery
4. Palestinians gathering around body, AUDIO shots heard in background
5. Soldiers firing stun grenades at Palestinians
5. Soldiers trying to take body away from paramedics
6. Woman crying carried away by paramedics
7. Soldiers fighting paramedics over body
8. Paramedics leaving with body
9. Zoom on Israeli soldiers getting into jeep
Nablus, West Bank
10. Wide of Israeli army vehicles in main Nablus road
11. Long shot of Palestinian man standing in his underwear talking to soldier
12. Pan of Israeli armoured vehicles in street, AUDIO of gunfire, zoom in to Palestinian crouching next to Israeli jeep
Palestinian Interior Ministry, Gaza City
13. Various of Palestinian Interior Ministry after being struck by Israeli forces
14. Tilt-down to rubble from building
Fatah Office, Gaza City
15. Exterior of Fatah office with devastated first floor
16. Various interior shots with rubble and debris
17. Various of burnt books
Palestinian Police Station, Gaza City
18. Boys near rubble from bombed hole in wall
19. Various close-ups of metal pieces, shrapnel from Israeli strike
20. Hole in wall
21. Damage to room with with flags in background
al-Shwah Cultural Centre, Gaza City
22. Exterior of damaged building
23. Sign reading (English/Arabic): al-Shwah Cultural Centre for Computer and Languages
24. Interior damage to centre with broken computers and equipment
25. Damaged wall in centre
Gaza City
26. Various of damaged road
27. Boy standing in crater
29. Various skyline shots with Israeli navy sailing past Gaza City
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Nahal Oz, north of Nizmit, Gaza-Israel border
30. Various of Israeli military tanks firing artillery
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip
31. Crater in road caused by Israeli air strike, boy on bicycle nearby
32. Tilt from destroyed road to people looking at damage
33. Relatives of deceased grieving at his home
34. Relatives kissing the body deceased
35. Woman wailing as funeral procession leaves
36. Various of body being carried to mosque in funeral procession
STORYLINE:
Israeli troops continued their air and ground offensive in the Palestinian territories on Friday to try and force the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants earlier in the week.
In the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian militant during a fierce gun battle in a cemetery, Palestinian security officials said.
Two other militants were arrested and one fled, the officials said.
The Israeli army said its soldiers were operating in the area when a militant opened fire.
The troops fired back, killing the militant, the army said.
After the gun battle, Israeli soldiers fought with Palestinians over the body of the dead Palestinian.
Israeli soldiers waited outside the cemetery for the Palestinian paramedics to come out with the body, in an attempt to seize it.
When the paramedics tried to leave with the body, Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades at the paramedics and a crowd of mourners.
In the end, the Israeli soldiers left the scene without the body.
Earlier in Nablus, Israel arrested four militants, the Israeli army and Palestinian security officials said.
The Israeli army and the Palestinian officials said all four were affiliated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
The Israeli army said there was an exchange of gunfire.
It was not clear whether there were any casualties.
In Gaza overnight, Israeli jet fighters destroyed the offices of Hamas' Interior Minister.
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MIDDLE EAST: HAMAS RALLY IN NABLUS
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Hamas activists held a rally in the West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday protesting at Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
The rally took place at An-Najah university, traditionally a Hamas power base in the territory.
Participants walked on pictures of Israel and US flags as they passed through the entrance.
Pictures of Ehud Barak and Israeli army chief Shaul Mofaz were also trampled underfoot.
The protesters smashed models of Israeli tanks and listened to anti Israel speeches.
An effigy of Ariel Sharon, whose visit to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque in September sparked the present violence, was also burned at the rally.
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Hamas reax and Palestinians at Friday prayers in Nablus
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Gaza
1. Hamas rally along Gaza street
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saeed Seyam, Hamas leader:
The Palestinian people will be very happy and feel some form of revenge for that criminal (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon) who committed several crimes. But at the end anyway, we are dealing with a bloody occupation, led by a criminal leader and generals.
3. Hamas rally with signs reading No for killing innocent people
Nablus, West Bank
4. People walking up steps of mosque
5. Various of people praying
7. Close up of Hamas leader Sheikh Hamed Bitawi in Nablus praying
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sheikh Hamed Bitawi, Hamas leader in Nablus:
All the Zionist leaders are criminals and terrorists but (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel )Sharon is Number One - he has committed crimes for fifty years.
9. Close up of hand holding prayer beads
10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop:
On his deathbed it's between him and the hands of God. But for us, (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon is our enemy on the battlefield only, because death is the end.
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Voxpop:
A person like (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon who committed several massacres against the Palestinian people, we will not be sorry for is death. We still say we will be happy and overjoyed if this person died.
12. People leaving mosque
STORYLINE:
Hamas leaders and Palestinians in Gaza and Nablus expressed little sympathy Friday for the gravely ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a man widely detested in the Arab world for bloody events that he has been heavily implicated in such as Qibya, Sabra and Shatila and Jenin over the years.
At a rally in Gaza for the upcoming elections, Hamas leader Saeed Seyam said that some Palestinians would be happy and feel some form of revenge, if Sharon died.
But he said he felt the political situation was unlikely to change even if Sharon was no longer leading the Israeli people.
We are dealing with a bloody occupation, led by criminal leader and generals, Seyam said.
Following Friday prayers in Nablus, Hamas leader Sheikh Hamed Bitawi said all the Zionist leaders are criminals and terrorists but Sharon is Number One.
One man leaving Friday prayers tokk a more sanguine approach, saying Sharon's fate was between him and the hands of God.
Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke on Wednesday and has been hospitalised ever since.
Hadassah Hospital officials denied Israeli TV reports Friday that Ariel Sharon's latest surgery had ended after more than three hours.
After the surgery, Sharon is scheduled to undergo a brain scan, hospital officials said.
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WRAP Clashes in Nablus, one Palestinian killed in Gaza, leaflets, crossings, security
Nablus, West Bank
1. Man in the hospital
2. Relatives mourning around body
3. Close up shot to hospital sign
4. Israeli bulldozers around building
5. Various of bulldozed buildings
6. Smoke rising from area of army activity
7. Wide shot of Muqata area
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Mughazi area, Gaza Strip
8. Bodies inside a mortuary
9. Close up shot of dead body inside the mortuary
10. Ambulance arriving
11. Man taken inside the hospital
12. Man inside emergency room
13. Two bodies taken to mortuary
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
14. Wide exterior of school
15. Man holding leaflet dropped by Israeli army
16. Close-up of leaflet
17. Exterior of school
18. Tilt-up of boy holding leaflet
Shoafat roadblock, outskirts of Jerusalem
19. Police vehicle drives past camera
20. Soldiers checking IDs at roadblock, pull-out to wide shot of roadblock
Qalandiya checkpoint, outskirts of Ramallah, West Bank
21. Wide shot of checkpoint
22. Wide shot of Israeli soldier checking boot of car
Jerusalem
23. Pull-out, Israeli border police soldier standing in street
24. Various of Israeli soldiers in market
STORYLINE:
In the West Bank city of Nablus, a standoff between troops and militants entered its second day on Thursday.
On Wednesday Israeli forces killed three Palestinian militants at their compound in the city as they pressed forward with a wide-ranging offensive against militants in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The army also dropped leaflets on towns and villages in the Gaza Strip, warning residents that anyone with an arsenal of weapons in their homes would be attacked.
A short time later, during the army's second day of an operation in the Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza, Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile toward a group of Palestinians standing in an open area, killing one and wounding five, medics said.
The casualties included a man dressed in militant fatigues but most were civilians living in nearby homes, the medics said.
Earlier, a Palestinian teenager was killed in Mughazi as militants and troops exchanged fire, medics said.
After dropping the Arabic-language leaflets warning of dangerous consequences for people hiding weapons, military officials told The Associated Press that the army was adopting a new policy of attacking homes in civilian areas where weapons such as homemade rockets are secretly stored.
In the three-week old offensive, Israeli forces have mostly attacked government compounds and open areas that militants were using to fire rockets toward Israel.
On Wednesday night Israel closed down border crossings into the Palestinian territories amid high tension over fighting on the country's northern border with Lebanon.
And in Jerusalem on Thursday morning Israeli police were also out in force.
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Hamas rally in Nablus, Gaza celebrations
SHOTLIST
Nablus
1. Wide shot of Palestinian protesters marching down street
2. Palestinians on scooters and quad bikes
3. Close up of Palestinian flag
4. Various of protesters carrying flags and large paper models of weapons
5. Close up of masked Palestinians holding guns
6. Various of protesters carrying flags and large paper models of weapons
7. Protesters burning large paper model of Israeli war plane
8. Protesters burning large paper model of settlements
9. Protesters burning large paper model of Israeli tank
Gaza
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10 Aerial shot of thousands of people marching in the streets
11. Various of people marching holding flags
12. Man with Hamas poster
13. SOUNBITE: (English) Mahmoud a-Zahar, Hamas Spokesman:
This is the ceremony of the elimination of the settler on the Gaza Strip, the destruction, killing, burning of al-Aqsa mosque will not prevent victory of resistance, victory of Hamas.
14. People singing and clapping
STORYLINE
Thousands of Hamas members rallied in Nablus and Gaza on Monday in celebration of the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
In Nablus, militants built models of an Israeli settlement and tank and then burnt them.
Thousands of Hamas supporters also took to the streets in Gaza City in another celebration march.
Hamas spokesman, Mahmoud A-Zahar said the withdrawal of Israeli setters from the area proved that Hamas had been victorious.
Jockeying to take credit for Israel''s Gaza Strip pullout, Hamas militants say they were involved in 54 percent of 400 attacks on Israeli targets in Gaza in the past five years.
The figures appeared on a Hamas web site Monday, the day Israel set out to clear the last of its 21 Gaza settlements, Netzarim.
Hamas said its numbers were reliable because they were culled from Israeli military statistics - a claim that could not immediately be verified.
Hamas and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have been engaged in fierce competition over who will be credited with the Gaza pullout, a unilateral Israeli move.
Hamas said its attacks have driven Israel out, while Abbas hopes to gain political capital from eventual improvement in the daily life of Gazans as a result of the withdrawal.
Hamas hasn''t been the only Palestinian group to take credit for the withdrawal, with all of the organisations claiming it their victory.
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