(19 May 2007)
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Set-up shot of Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti in his office
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian Information Minister:
“The main guarantee is that this agreement was reached by Abu Mazen – Mister Abbas (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) – and Mister Mashaal (supreme Hamas leader, Damascus-based Khaled Mashaal), and I have just spoken to Mister Mashaal and they have confirmed that, and the two sides – Fatah and Hamas – inside and outside have reached an agreement to initiate this additional ceasefire at 3 p.m. (12:00GMT). But of course the main thing is what will happen on the ground.”
3. Cutaway of Barghouti’s hands
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian Information Minister:
“The agreement is about releasing all the people kidnapped, stopping all forms of violence, stopping the incitement, and also – the most important thing – is to take out from the streets and different stations all the gunmen.”
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
5. Wide of building damaged from clashes between Fatah and Hamas
6. Damaged building, broken windows and debris on ground
7. Damaged car
8. Broken windows
9. Various of militants removing roadblocks
10. Wide of Egyptian flag on top of Egyptian Representation Office to the Palestinian National Authority
11. Close-up of sign saying ‘Egyptian Representation Office to the Palestinian National Authority’
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abed Al-Khqim Awad, Fatah representative in ceasefire talks:
“The streets will be checked in order to make sure they are cleared of gunmen. This is to implement the agreement that was agreed to four days ago with the Egyptian security delegation. After that we will move to residential towers and each will be checked and emptied from gunmen who will be replaced by policemen.”
13. Group of men standing beside car on road
14. Exterior of Egyptian Representation Office to the Palestinian National Authority
Northern Gaza Strip, shot from Israeli side
15. Wide shot from border of smoke rising from scene
16. Israeli bulldozer (please note: this is not the bulldozer which was hit) driving
17. Wide pan of border, smoke rising
STORYLINE:
The rival Hamas and Fatah factions reached a new ceasefire deal on Saturday, after a week of deadly fighting, officials announced, pledging to pull fighters off the streets and exchange hostages.
Previous truce agreements quickly collapsed in recent days, and it was not clear if this one would hold.
The new ceasefire was agreed at a meeting at the Egyptian Representation Office in Gaza City.
“The main guarantee is that this agreement was reached by Abu Mazen – Mister Abbas (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) – and Mister Mashaal (supreme Hamas leader, Damascus-based Khaled Mashaal), and I have just spoken to Mister Mashaal and they have confirmed that, and the two sides – Fatah and Hamas – inside and outside have reached an agreement to initiate this additional ceasefire at 3 p.m. (12:00GMT),” Palestinian Information Minister, Mustafa Barghouti said in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
“But of course the main thing is what will happen on the ground,” Barghouti said.
The weeklong Hamas-Fatah fighting has killed more than 50 Palestinians and wounded dozens.
Both sides promised to pull fighters off the streets, dismantle roadblocks and exchange hostages.
“The streets will be checked in order to make sure they are cleared of gunmen,” said Abed Al-Khqim Awad, a Fatah representative involved in the ceasefire talks.
Abbas has stayed in his West Bank headquarters during the fighting.
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