(3 Dec 2002)
Ramallah, West Bank
1. EU Envoy to the Middle East Miguel Moratinos arriving at Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat’s headquarters
2. Various, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat’s seated with EU Envoy to the Middle East Miguel Moratinos
3. Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat walking out of the building with Miguel Moratinos
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator:
“We condemn this new war crime. A 95-year-old Palestinian woman, Fatima Mohammed Hassan, was just a bystander when she was shot in cold blood by the Israeli army, another woman was wounded. I would just like to remind you that in Beit Lahia a 70-year-old Palestinian deaf man was killed when the Israelis bulldozed his home over his head. This vicious cycle of killings is an indication that the Israeli government intends to continue the escalation, continue the incursions, match with with the settlement activities and so on.”
5. Erekat walking away with Miguel Moratinos
Ramallah, West Bank
6. Exterior, Ramallah hospital
7. Various, body of Fatima Mohammed Hassan being trolleyed
8. Various, wounded Palestinian woman, Kifaya Ra’fat, 41, in Ramallah hospital
9. Woman outside hospital crying
Jerusalem
10. Exterior, Israeli cabinet building
11. Various, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meeting with Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean
Gaza City
12. Wide shot, crowds outside morgue where body of 35-year-old Khaled Nasser lies
13. Various, flags of Palestinian groups (black – Islamic Jihad, red – Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, yellow – Fatah)
14. Wide shot gunmen firing into air outside morgue
15. Funeral procession moving down street
16. Body of Khaled Nasser held on shoulders down street
17. Various, mourners
18. Various Palestinians on vehicles driving past camera
STORYLINE:
Palestinian officials expressed outrage on Tuesday over the killing of a Palestinian woman, shot dead as she and a friend approached a checkpoint in a car at a road block on the outskirts of Ramallah.
Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat described the incident as a new war crime. “These are indications that the Israeli government is continuing to escalate violence and increase settlement activity”, he said after a meeting between Yasser Arafat and EU Envoy to the Middle East Miguel Moratinos.
The two women were driving down a West Bank road closed to Palestinians, when soldiers at a road block shot at the car, killing Fatima Mohammed Hassan and wounding Kifaya Ra’fat, 41.
“The soldiers were running towards us, shooting in all directions, they started to hit the windows of the car (with their weapons) and I got injured,” said Ra’fat from her bed in Ramallah hospital.
After breaking the windows, she said, the soldiers retreated then began shooting at the vehicle from a distance. She was shot in the thigh and Hassan was killed.
In Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon – meeting with Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean – had no comment.
Meanwhile in Gaza, hundreds of mourners packed the streets attending the funeral of Khaled Nasser, a 35-year-old sanitation worker, killed on Monday when a mortar fired by Palestinians at an Israeli position fell short of its target, at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel.
Twelve Palestinians returning from jobs in Israel were wounded in the blast.
Palestinians fire mortars at Israeli army outposts and Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip almost every day, rarely causing damage or casualties.
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