Palestinians give glimpse of Jericho mosaic
Palestinian officials give a rare glimpse of one of the Middle East's finest mosaic floors near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
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0:00 Introduction
0:18 Checking into Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel
1:09 Showing the military barracks dorm room + What the conflict is about (in summary)
1:47 Who is Banksy + Mandatory Military Service in Israel + Showing details of my room
2:30 People thinking I’m just here to take an Instagram picture
3:03 Exploring the border wall + Visiting the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center + What Palestinians think of Israelis + Daily Life in Palestine + Israeli Settlements
5:56 Observations after my meeting
6:41 A kid thinking I was an Israeli soldier + Falafel shop guys
8:40 Attempting to visit the Church of Nativity, the birthplace of Jesus
9:03 Mosque call to prayer + Conversation with my taxi cab driver about the call of prayer + Me accidentally calling a settlement pretty in front of a Palestinian + My driver asking if I was religious + Heart to heart with my driver about his children
11:09 Self-playing piano + Tindering in Israel and Palestine + What’s on Netflix in Palestine
13:01 You don’t choose where you are born, so why do we feel so entitled to enforce strict immigration policies…
14:02 Building fences and walls for security, but then these same security fences and walls perpetuate the problem, causing each side to dislike the other even more
14:45 Banksy Wall Graffiti Tour + What Palestinians think of the wall becoming a tourist attraction + Litter written in Hebrew
16:13 Why someone would want to live in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank + Palestinians needing permits to travel + Palestinian military + Asking my West Bank taxi driver all my questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict + Safety in Palestine
19:56 Wadi Qelt + St. George Monastery
20:16 What my taxi driver eats for breakfast + The biggest Israeli settlement + Highway aggressions
21:08 Visiting the Old City of Jericho, the oldest city in the world + My cynical travel side coming out
22:01 Driver buying me falafel + Wearing a European speedo to the Dead Sea + Floating in the Dead Sea
23:28 Final Thoughts + Why Each Side is Mad + Checkpoints + Solutions + Resources
28:15 Deleted Scenes
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Israeli tanks rolling into West Bank town of Hebron
1. Tank and armoured vehicles driving into Hebron
2. Various of stationary tank
3. Various of Israeli tank and armoured personnel carriers driving along road
4. Long shot of Israeli helicopter, zoom out to wide shot of same
5. View from moving vehicle following armoured convoy
6. Various of armoured convoy moving through streets of Hebron
STORYLINE:
A week into Israel's largest military offensive in a generation, tanks rolled into the West Bank town of Hebron on Thursday.
Israel launched Operation Protective Wall last Friday, they say to crush Palestinian militias that have carried out deadly attacks on Israeli civilians, including seven suicide bombings in the past week.
The trigger was an attack at the start of the Passover holiday that killed 26 Israelis attending a Seder, a ritual meal, in a hotel.
Since then, Israeli forces have taken over six major West Bank towns and cities - Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Jenin, Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Nablus - and have arrested more than 1,100 Palestinians.
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Russian PM visits Jerusalem's Wailing Wall
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Jerusalem - 10 November, 2016
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1. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Western Wall
2. Medvedev and delegation seen on camera screen
3. Various of Medvedev and officials during visit
4. Medvedev approaching and touching the Western Wall
5. Close of Medvedev touching Wall
6. Close of officials
7. Various of Medvedev at Wall
8. Police
9. Women looking on from stairs
10. Medvedev receiving book and shaking hands with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch
11. Various of delegation at Western Wall
STORYLINE:
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the Western Wall on Wednesday, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's Old City.
Medvedev is on a three-day, high level visit to Israel and the Palestinan Territories to explore issues of mutual interest.
Later on Thursday, Medvedev will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, separately, with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in Jerusalem.
On Friday, Medvedev is expected to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Jericho.
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Medvedev's Middle East mission - Russian PM meets Israeli and Palestinian leaders
The war in Syria, nuclear proliferation and trade have topped talks between Russia and Israel during a three day tour to the Middle East by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
On Friday, the Russian premier visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem before heading to Jericho for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Insisting Moscow supported peace in the region during a joint press conference with Abbas, Medvedev said: ''Our countries - Russia and the Palestinian stat…
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State of Palestine: Abbas opens Yasser Arafat museum in Rammalah
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit , opened the new Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah, Wednesday. Yasser Arafat was the first President of the Palestinian National Authority and remains a symbol of the Palestinian resistance today.
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Sacred sycamore integral to plan to attract tourists
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With a giant trunk and boughs towering 60 feet (18 metres) high, a gnarled sycamore near Jericho's main square has long been touted as the very tree that the hated tax collector Zacchaeus climbed to get a glimpse of Jesus, as recounted in the Bible.
Now the tree is taking centre stage in a plan to transform this ancient desert backwater in the West Bank into a tourism hub.
The tree, once tucked obscurely away on a side street, is a featured attraction of a Russian-funded museum complex to be unveiled this month as part of Jericho's 10,000th birthday celebrations.
At the October 10 launch of yearlong festivities, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will outline ambitious plans for Jericho, a Jordan Valley oasis that bills itself as the world's oldest and lowest-lying town, at some 780 feet (238 metres) below sea level.
The venture includes a resort to be built on the shores of the nearby Dead Sea. The Palestinians even hope for an airport in the area, though both projects hinge on Israeli approval.
The plans reflect the Abbas government's approach of building a Palestinian state from the ground up, regardless of the ups and downs of negotiations with Israel.
Such pragmatism grew out of painful years of conflict, especially in the past decade, when Palestinians across the West Bank saw many economic gains wiped out.
The road leading into Jericho bears fledgling signs of prosperity; it's now a four-lane highway instead of a potholed country road, and an Israeli army checkpoint that used to snarl traffic and deter visitors has been removed because of a growing atmosphere of calm.
But a casino, shut after the outbreak of fighting in 2000, remains closed because the Israeli military believes it is too dangerous for Israelis - the main clientele - to return to Jericho.
Still, more foreign tourists are visiting, about one (m) million a year since the Israeli-Palestinian fighting began to drop off in 2006, said Jericho Mayor Hassan Saleh.
Their main stops include Tel Sultan, an archaeological dig some say proves Jericho was first settled around 8,000 B.C., and an 8th-century Umayad palace with intricate mosaics.
Many visitors also stop at the ancient sycamore, and the hope is that the three (m) million US dollar museum and visitors' complex being built near the tree will encourage visitors to linger.
Local lore has long maintained the tree, whose massive partially hollowed trunk measures 7 feet (2.1 metres) in diameter, is the very one featured in the biblical tale of Jesus and Zacchaeus, the tax collector of short stature who, according to the Gospel of Luke, climbed the tree to get a better look at Jesus.
The tree will eventually be ringed by the perimeter wall of the museum compound.
On Friday, dozens of Palestinian and Russian workers were still at work, rushing to finish the white stone building in time for the October 10 opening.
The museum, which sits on land bought by the Russian government in the 19th century, will feature Russian art and an exhibit on cultural ties between Russia and Palestine, as well as artifacts discovered during a salvage dig before construction began.
Tests are being conducted on the health of the tree, which preliminary tests have shown to be more than 2,000 years old.
The tree does have a rival nearby, in the courtyard of a Greek Orthodox church, the huge trunk of a dead sycamore encased in glass is also presented as the biblical tree.
Still, Saleh said the tree in the Russian complex is believed to be the oldest sycamore in Jericho.
Some visitors take the uncertainty in their stride.
Norwegian Anna Boertveit, who was visiting with a tour group, said that whether the tree was the genuine article or not was immaterial to her.
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1,700 year old mosaic revealed
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A beautifully preserved 1,700 year old mosaic floor has been discovered by archaeologists in Israel.
The Roman-era tiles, discovered in the town of Lod, depict hunting scenes and are believed to have been created by a north African artisan.
STORY-LINE:
A wonderful discovery in the Israeli town of Lod.
This Roman era mosaic is believed to be 1,700 years old.
Depicting scenes of animals and hunting, the mosaic floor was discovered by archaeologists while they were building a visitors' centre meant to display another mosaic, discovered two decades earlier at the same location.
Israel's Antiquities Authority says the newly discovered mosaic measures 11 metres by 13 metres (36 feet by 42 feet) and once paved the courtyard of a villa in an affluent neighbourhood that stood during the end of the Roman era and the start of the Byzantine empire.
Amir Gorzalczany is an archaeologist with the Antiquities Authority and directed the excavation after the mosaic was discovered last year.
He describes the mosaic as a rare find.
The mosaic displays animals, displays fights of animals, hunt scenes, geometric scenes, floral scenes. You can see, it's also interesting to see, you can see also stones that are covered, coated by gold and glass, which is very, very peculiar, very, very difficult to find in other places, says Gorzalczany.
Archaeologists believe the mosaic once belonged to a very wealthy owner because its creator was likely brought from north Africa to Israel.
Hagit Torge of the Antiquities Authority explains: We're seeing here the courtyard of a Roman villa that was lived in from the end of the 2nd Century until the beginning of the 4th Century CE (AD), of course. This is the courtyard with a mosaic that was made by artisans that came here from North Africa. Now, the animals are North Africans and also the style, we have parallels for this style in Carthage, so we know that the person who set here was really, really wealthy and he had the money to bring artisans from abroad to make his own unique mosaic, just for him.
The new mosaic was found just a few metres (yards) from an earlier mosaic that was uncovered in the villa's living room - this new mosaic is believed to have been in the courtyard area.
Today the town is called Lod, but in Roman times it was known as Diospolis, an affluent town inhabited by a rich population.
Gorzalczany says: In the 3rd Century Lod then, its name was 'Diospolis', the city of god; it was the capital of a district. It's a very rich, very cosmopolitan city located in a junction of roads which provided a very, very dynamic trade. This place specifically, we are in a neighbourhood that characterized by many, many rich houses. We have reasons to believe that this area was a very, very affluent, very rich neighbourhood of the people that were the elite, the cultural, political elite of the city during the Roman period.
The original mosaic from Lod - discovered in the 1990s - has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris, and the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg.
It is currently on display at the Cini Gallery in Venice, Italy, and is expected to return to Lod after the visitors' centre here is complete.
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Qureia on Jericho negotiations, Hariri, funeral of militants
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Ramallah, West Bank
1. Exterior of Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia's office
2. Qureia arriving at his office
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Qureia, Palestinian Prime Minister
The negotiations (for the Jericho handover) are ongoing. The changes, or the position we were informed of yesterday, with the commanders of the area, regarding the withdrawal from Jericho, was altered. The commitment to withdraw from the whole area and the removal of all checkpoints will be revealed today.
4. Qureia talking to journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Qureia, Palestinian Prime Minister
There's no doubt it's an ugly crime (Hariri's assassination). We condemned it, and we strongly condemn it. Hariri is a prominent Lebanese personality who played a central role in Lebanese politics. He is also a prominent Arab personality. No doubt we will miss him, and we hope with all our hearts that this doesn't reflect on the stability and unity of Lebanon.
6. Qureia entering his office
7. Exterior of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' office
8. Abbas arriving for meeting with United Nations representatives
9. Abbas shaking hands with UN representatives
10. Various of photo opportunity
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
11. Thousands of Palestinian marching in streets
12. Palestinians carrying two bodies in funeral procession
13. Palestinian mourners chanting
14. More of bodies being carried through streets
15. Wide shot funeral procession
STORYLINE
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Tuesday put an end to conflicting versions over whether there was agreement on the handover of the West Bank town of Jericho, saying the negotiations with the Israelis are still ongoing.
A Palestinian negotiator said on Tuesday he had reached final agreement with Israel on the handover of the West Bank town of Jericho to Palestinian control, including the removal of the main Israeli roadblock in the area, in what would be an important precedent for pullbacks from four more West Bank towns in coming weeks. But Israel's defense minister denied this claim.
Israeli military officials also said wider negotiations were still continuing.
The delay is a setback to the implementation of a truce declared a week ago at a summit in Egypt aimed at ending four years of bloodshed in the Middle East.
Jericho, a quiet oasis in the Jordan River valley, will be the first of five towns to revert to Palestinian control. But in meetings on Monday, officials were unable to agree on how much territory the Palestinians would be given and where the new Israeli roadblocks would be, officials on both sides said.
Qureia also commented on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, which he described as an ugly crime.
Across the Middle East, Monday's assassination of Hariri raised fears old wounds would be reopened and the fragile Palestinian-Israeli truce could be threatened.
Also in Ramallah on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met United Nations representatives at his office to discuss the ceasefire.
Meanwhile in Gaza City, thousands of Palestinians took part in the funeral procession of two of 15 Palestinian militants killed in clashes with Israelis.
Israel returned the bodies on Monday as a gesture of good will following the truce declared last week.
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Israelis take rare tour of Palestinian stronghold of Ramallah
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Road connecting Jerusalem to Ramallah
1. Tracking of cars on road leading to Ramallah
2. Wide of tour participants on bus going to Ramallah
3. Mid of tour guide speaking to tour participants UPSOUND (English) tour organiser: We didn't enter Ramallah yet; we still need about three metre, three hundred metres.
4. Close of tour participants on bus
Ramallah, West Bank
5. Tracking of bus driving down city street
6. Exterior of Mahmoud Darwish Museum
7. Mid of tour participants exiting bus
8. Wide of tour participants climbing up stairs to Mahmoud Darwish Museum
9. Wide of Mahmoud Darwish tomb
10. Mid of tour participants at Mahmoud Darwish Museum
11. Wide of tour participants, including organiser Gershon Baskin (in purple shirt), outside Mahmoud Darwish Museum
Rawabi, West Bank
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gershon Baskin, tour organiser:
Israelis and Palestinians live in this land and don't get to meet, they don't get to talk to each other. There are walls and fences that divide them in a physical manner. There are psychological barriers that separate them with a psychology of fear that exists between the two sides. The only way that we're gonna break forth through any progress and making peace between the people who live here is to break down the walls and get the people to see each other, to talk to each other, to reach out, to understand the reality that each side is living in. We organise these tours in order to bring Israelis into Palestine, to Ramallah and the areas around the Ramallah so they can see the daily life and the challenges that Palestinians face.
Ramallah, West Bank
13. Wide of tour bus parked outside Samer's Restaurant
14. Mid of tour participants having lunch at Samer's Restaurant
15. Close of food on table - on the left-hand corner of the picture is Palestinian bread (round, on brown basket) as well as matza (in a plastic container), unleavened bread of the Jewish tradition
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Gavin Gross, tour participant:
The reason I come on these trips is I'm very curious as an Israeli - what's happening 15-20 minutes away from me? Palestinian cities that we normally can't get to visit. Because this is an official tour, an organised tour, I had a chance to visit and I grabbed it because I want to see with my own eyes and listen with my own ears.
17. Various of tour participants at mausoleum of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat
Rawabi, West Bank
18. Wide of Rawabi city under construction
19. Wide of tour participants entering Rawabi showroom
20. Wide of tour participants visiting Rawabi showroom
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronit Ramati, tour participant:
I'm very impressed from Rawabi. It looks like a modern city and very well planned. It looks like people who will come to live here want to live and not to fight with each other.
22. Close of model of Rawabi at showroom
23. Wide of Rawabi buildings under construction seen from statue
STORYLINE
Ramallah, a bustling centre of Palestinian life is just a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, but for Israelis it might as well be
on the other side of the world.
Since a major round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting more than a decade ago, Israelis have been kept out of Palestinian cities by the Israeli military and their own fears.
But after several years of relative calm, a few have begun trickling back in tours led by Palestinian guides and guarded by
plainclothes Palestinian security agents.
On Wednesday, about two dozen visitors, Israelis and a few foreigners, visited the city, as part of an ongoing peace initiative by activists that promotes co-existence.
separation that deepened the divide between the two peoples.
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JERUSALEM: ORDER OF ST. JOHN BEGINS COUNTER DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM BEGINS ITS CAMPAIGN TO COUNTER DISINFORMATION
As envoy to the City of Jerusalem and to the Knesset,
Sir David Montefiore addresses the citizens of the State of Israel
on behalf of the Knights of Malta Sovereign Hospitallers Order of St. John of Jerusalem, as an Observer State of the United Nations.
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed
a bipartisan measure to disapprove a United Nations Security
Council resolution 2334 that condemned Israeli settlements
on the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, passed
342 to 80 on Thursday, Jan 5, 2017 described last month’s
resolution as “an obstacle to Israel-Palestinian peace.”
It had been seen as a rebuke to President Barack Obama’s
approach to the US-Israel relationship. It noted that the
Obama administration’s decision to abstain – and not veto
the Security Council resolution “undermined” Washington’s
decades-long policy of shielding Israel at the UN.
The KNIGHTS OF MALTA Sovereign Hospitallers Order of
St. John of Jerusalem was delivered on January 8, 2017
corresponding to RESPONSE TO UN RESOLUTION 2334
was delivered on January 8, 2017 corresponding to the lunar calendar date of Asara B'Tevet 10 Tevet 5777.
Israel/W.Bank - Kohl Praises Israel
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German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, praised Israel's peace efforts
with the PLO on Tuesday (6/6) before travelling to Palestinian
territory for talks with PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat, on Wednesday
(7/6). At a state dinner on Tuesday night (6/6) in Jerusalem given
by Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, Chancellor Kohl praised
Rabin's decision to break the vicious circle of hatred and
violence, suffering and expulsion in the Middle East together with
the PLO and to embark together on the road to peace. On Wednesday
(7/6) Kohl travelled to the autonomous Palestinian enclave of
Jericho where he and Arafat discussed European aid to the
autonomous areas.
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Kohl and Rabin greeting guests for dinner
JERICHO, PALESTINIAN AUTONOMOUS REGION 7/6
Kohl and Arafat standing on podium as band plays
Kohl and Arafat walking down red carpet as band plays
Arafat and Kohl at meeting table with other German and Palestinian
officials
Arafat SOT
Kohl SOT
VS of meeting
Arafat SOT at press conference
CU Kohl at press conference
CU Arafat Arabic SOT
CU Kohl German SOT
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Next Life In Palestine (2015)
The dream of returning to Palestine is passed down through the generations in Shatila Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Second class citizens in Lebanon, ignored by international institutions, these victims of ethnical cleansing keep suffering to this day from an injustice forgotten. Is it just a dream, or will they one day return?
ISRAEL: WEST BANK: GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL VISIT
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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Wednesday and pledged extra aid to help his administration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Kohl also promised to consider more German investment, but stopped short of making any definite pledges
Chancellor Kohl arrived in Jericho on Wednesday for a visit to the Palestinian National Authority's autonomous region and a meeting with its leader, Yasser Arafat.
There was heavy security as Kohl arrived in the desert oasis - and plenty of pomp and ceremony.
The Chancellor reviewed a Palestinian guard of honour and the elite Force 17 troops.
Then it was down to business.
The newly-formed Palestinian authority badly needs foreign investment to kick start its economy and make a dent in its massive unemployment problem - currently running at 58 percent.
The Palestinian authority is planning a series of projects - it hopes - will turn around the dire economic situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
And give men, like these, somewhere to work.
The two leaders discussed a civilian airport in the Gazan city of Rafah and a passenger terminal for Erez checkpoint, the main border crossing between Israel and Gaza.
They also talked about several joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial parks, to be built on the Green Line.
This project in the West Bank is already being looked at with interest by a number of international companies.
Israeli Foreign minister Shimon Peres recently visited the site - a move that underlined Israel's commitment to the venture.
Chancellor Kohl told a news conference after the meeting that Germany would give additional aid to the 155 million marks (110 million dollars) already sent since self-rule began in Jericho and the Gaza Strip last year. But he stopped short of promising investment.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
We have given a symbolic financial help as part of this visit by the amount of 10 million DM that will be used to strengthen the Palestinian administration offices here. This is only symbolic aid, in addition to the bilateral help that we give through the European Union. We will study the Palestinian proposals so we know in the future how to contribute in a better way.
SUPER CAPTION: Helmut Kohl, German Chancellor
Despite the lack of a firm promise of investment, Arafat seemed pleased with the visit.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
I can say that there are positive results, and not only one result, from this visit. First I must point out that even before this meeting, the German people, headed by Chancellor Kohl, were willing to help the Palestinian people on all levels.
SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority Chairman
It all ended with a handshake - one of many since Yasser Arafat was welcomed back into the international community with the signing of the self-rule agreement last year.
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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at launch of his wife's new cookery book.
Kohl and wife seated
MIDDLE EAST
Yasser Arafat at his inauguration in February
Arafat at podium addressing audience
Arafat shaking hands
Arafat inspecting march-past
Arafat kissing children
Horsemen along with Palestinian flag
Aftermath of bus explosion in Jerusalem - wreckage
Distressed injured lying on ground
Bodies in wreckage
Rescue workers clearing debris and searching for bodies
Distressed relatives, survivors and mourners near the scene
Funeral of Jewish victims. Coffin draped in Israeli flag
Smoke rising from attack - Israeli offensive against southern Lebanon
Aftermath of artillery fire at UN refugee base
Injured man on stretcher and hospital staff rushing around
Workers coming out of damaged building with helmets
Netanyahu elected new Israeli Prime Minister
Supporters celebrating in street
Netanyahu among supporters, waving
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Abbas, Medvedev on US elections, Mideast
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Jericho, West Bank – 11 November 2016
1. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walking red carpet during official welcoming ceremony UPSOUND: band playing
2. Guard of honour at official welcoming ceremony
3. Medvedev and Abbas shaking hands before sitting for talks
4. Abbas
5. Medvedev
6. Various of Palestinian and Russian officials signing agreements
7. Abbas and Medvedev on stage during news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:
Electing President Donald Trump is an American affair. We have followed the electoral process for over a year. What is important for us is what Mr.Trump will say, once he arrives at the White House.
9. Cutaway Palestinian and Russian flags
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:
We are ready for direct talks with the Israeli side. When Russia invited us, we agreed immediately and a few years ago I visited the house of the Israeli prime minister. The important thing is on what we will negotiate? Mr. Netanyahu should understand that if he does not believe in the two-state solution then there will be no peace.
11. Cutaway cameraman
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:
I have said to the Prime Minster (of Russia) that we will be at the International peace conference that is arranged to be held by the end of this year and we welcomed President Putin's invitation to hold tripartite meetings. But the Israeli side have requested a postponement and we are sure that Russia will play an effective role in any political process in our region.
13. Abbas and Medvedev at press conference
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia:
First of all I agree on what President Mahmoud Abbas said (regarding the US Election). We are sure that the American role is effective, active and important in the Middle East but this role was nonexistent in the last period.
15. Abbas and Medvedev
16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia:
We have friendly relations between Russia and Palestine. Russia is always supporting the Palestinian people in developing human resources and in the economic sector and other sectors.
17. Abbas and Medvedev leaving press conference
18. Street in Jericho to be named after Medvedev, Russian and Palestinian flags waving
19. Road
20. Commemorative marble plaque
21. Close of marble sign reading (Arabic, Russian, English): President Dmitry Medvedev street reconstructed in 2016 in cooperation with the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society
22. Various of workers painting crosswalk
23. Wide of street
STORYLINE:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Friday with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the West Bank city of Jericho and presided over the signing of bilateral agreements in the economic, industrial and cultural sectors.
Commenting on the US election result at a press conference after the signing, Abbas said, What is important for us is what Mr.Trump will say, once he arrives at the White House.
The Palestinian President also told journalists he was ready to hold direct peace negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Peace talks between the two sides have stalled since April 2014.
The US-sponsored talks that lasted for nine months achieved no tangible results.
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Walking through Nablus, West Bank, Palestinian Territories
Israel/Autonomous Regions - Rabin Negotiates
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on Thursday (5/5) received an
offer from Japan of financial aid for the newly-created
Palestinian Autonomous Region in Jericho and Gaza.Rabin returned to Israel from Egypt on Wednesday night and was accorded a state reception at the airport. He went to the Museum centre in Tel Aviv where a major pro-peace rally was organized by the ruling Labour Party. Palestinian sources at PLO headquarters in Gaza had said they expected Israel to release some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday but Israeli security sources said only several hundred were freed so far. Later Wednesday night, scores of Palestinian deportees crossed the Allenby bridge into Jericho.
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VARIOUS 4-5/5
TEL-AVIV 4/5:
night pictures of plane on tarmac
rabin out of plane followed by ministers and his wife
honour guard
israel's national anthem being played
rabin and delegation shaking hands with officials receiving them
at airport
rabin speaking at rally
hundreds of israelis waving israeli flags and banners supporting
the peace process and the agreement with the plo
TEL-AVIV 5/5:
Japanese Foreign Minister Kakizawa entering office
Rabin and Kakizawa in room shaking hands and chatting with each
other (photo opportunity pictures)
Rabin sot at meeting about aid to the palestinians
EAST JERUSALEM 5/5:
faisal husseini shaking hands with kakizawa outside plo
headquarters (orient house)
they walk in
photo-op handshake across table husseini and kakizawa in orient
house
DAHARIA 5/5:
israeli soldiers
waiting family and friends
bus arriving
prisoners reunite with friends and families
NABLUS (5/5 night pix):
waiting family and friends
bus arriving
prisoners shaking hands with cheering waiting crowds
scenes of reunion
JERICHO 5/5:
waiting family and friends
street scenes in jericho
people in cafes reading newspaper headlines
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With a giant trunk and boughs towering 60 feet (18 meters) high, a gnarled sycamore near Jericho's m
HEADLINE: Ancient tree with Biblical roots?
CAPTION: With a giant trunk and boughs towering 60 feet high, a gnarled sycamore near Jericho's main square has long been touted as the very tree that the hated tax collector climbed to get a glimpse of Jesus. (Oct. 2)
This sycamore is more than just a gnarled old tree in the middle of Jericho, it's perhaps the very one that the Bible says a hated tax collected climbed to get a glimpse of Jesus.
The tree, though, isn't just at the center of a parable in the book of Luke, but also at the heart of efforts to revitalize the ancient city.
Crews are constructing a 3 million dollar complex that will open up next to the 60-foot tall sycamore, just in time for Jericho's Ten thousandth birthday celebrations.
Already about a million tourists a year come here and many say the tree is part of it's lure.
SOT Anna Boertveit, Norwegian tourist
Of course, we have heard the stories from the Bible and it's great to be here, and I can imagine that it would be like this, I can imagine the tree here, and see the pictures in my head. If it's really the tree (or not) it doesn't matter that much to me.
It's impossible to know for sure if this is the tree mentioned in the Bible, but specialists say preliminary tests show it is more than two thousand years old.
The tree, though, does have a rival
A Greek Orthodox church has encased the huge trunk of a dead sycamore which it says is the biblical tree.
Jericho officials aren't too worried about that controversy, though, as long as one or both of them bring more tourists and their dollars here.
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Jericho, West Bank
1. Wide of the sacred Sycamore tree
2. Tilt down sycamore
3. Close up trunk of sycamore tree
Ramallah, West Bank
4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hamdan Taha, Archaeologist from Ramallah:
The sycamore tree story relates to the first visit of Jesus to Jericho and his meeting with Zacchaeus, who was the tax collector and a bad person from the point of view of the people of Jericho at the time. Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus but could not because he was of short stature so he climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, and this made Jesus visit him in his house. This made him (Zacchaeus) better than the other people.
5. Cutaway of Taha's hands
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hamdan Taha, Archaeologist from Ramallah:
The excavations carried out by The Palestinian Department of Antiquities and the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy show that this site dates back to the Byzantine period of the fifth century and sixth century AD.
Jericho, West Bank
7. Wide of tree and workers on museum project working near the tree
8. Workers at work
9. Wide of museum under construction, at site of tree
10. Bus with tourists arriving to see the tree
11. Tourist guide explaining to tourists history of tree
12. Tourist taking picture of tree
13. Man taking picture of woman standing in front of tree
14. Wide of tree
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anna Boertveit, Norwegian tourist:
Of course, we have heard the stories from the Bible and it's great to be here, and I can imagine that it would be like this, I can imagine the tree here, and see the pictures in my head. If it's really the tree (or not) it doesn't matter that much to me.
18. Wide of tourists near tree
19. Medium shot of workers near tree
20. Wide of tree
21. Long shot of Jericho
22. Wide of Jericho through palms
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