Middle East Airstrikes 8 - WRAP Security compound hit, Rafah, Jerusalem clashes, Hamas sot, latest attack, vigil
NAME: ME AIRSTRIKE8 20081228Ix
TAPE: EF08/1299
IN_TIME: 11:06:46:03
DURATION: 00:06:14:05
SOURCES: AP TELEVISION
DATELINE: Various, 28 Dec 2008
RESTRICTIONS:
SHOTLIST
Gaza City
1. Wide of Seraya compound in immediate aftermath of Israeli attack, plumes of smoke rising
2. Street scene with plumes of smoke from compound rising in background
3. Top shot of devastated compound
4. Wide top shot showing smoke rising
5. Various ground shots in immediate aftermath of attack on compound with people leaving scene, including people believed to be prisoners detained at Seraya compound
6. Wide of pile of rubble and debris
7. Entrance to compound, open gate, debris
8. Various of people injured in airstrikes arriving at hospital and being taken in
Gaza City
9. Set up shot of Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum
10. Close-up of cameraman
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman
"I call upon all the Palestinian factions and their military wings, mainly the Al-Qassam brigades (the Hamas military wing), to remain on high alert and to take charge and take on the responsibility of defending the Palestinian people, and to target the Zionists deeply with fierce and severe attacks."
12. Reporter questioning Barhoum
Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza strip
13. Wide shot crowd assembled in street after car was hit in an airstrike, killing one Palestinian
14. Various of dismembered car, smoking parts, men gathered
15. Mid shot men and boys gathered around destroyed car
16. Boy drags piece of exploded car to add to main pieces of destroyed car
17. Crowd at scene
Rafah, southern Gaza Strip
18. Wide pan of damaged building with people sifting through rubble
19. Various of damaged buildings and rubble, onlookers, small fires still burning in the rubble
East Jerusalem
20. Wide street scene with tyres burning
21. Israeli police on roof
22. Various of Palestinian youths throwing stones
23. Israeli police, pull out to Palestinian youth throwing stones
Gaza City
+++NIGHT SHOTS++
24. People at scene of Israeli airstrike, flashing lights in background of emergency vehicle
25. Various of rubble of house, men walking on rubble
26. Exterior hospital, people gathered outside
27. Woman on trolley is wheeled along corridor by paramedics, man follows behind carrying child
28. Doctors treating injured person
Ramallah, West Bank
++NIGHT SHOTS++
29. Top shot of people gathered for candlelit vigil
30. Mid shot man with candle carrying poster reading: (English) "Save Gaza"
31. People carrying poster reading: (English/Arabic) "Silence equates to complicity (in) occupation's crimes"
32. Various of young people lighting candles
STORYLINE:
Israeli warplanes, pressing one of Israel's deadliest assaults ever on Palestinian militants, dropped bombs and missiles on a top security installation and dozens of other targets across Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sunday.
The strikes continued after nightfall with a hit on a house in Gaza City. The injured, including at least one woman and a child, were taken to hospital for treatment.
Also on Sunday night, Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah held a candlelit vigil to show their solidarity with Gazans, and to protest at the intensive Israeli bombardment there.
Israel's Cabinet authorised a call up of at least 6,500 reserve soldiers, suggesting plans to expand an offensive against Gaza rocket squads that has already killed more than 280 Palestinians, most of them Hamas police.
Israel launched some 250 airstrikes over the first 24 hours of the campaign, which began on Saturday.
Witnesses said Israeli warplanes dropped three bombs on Sunday on the Seraya compound in downtown Gaza, including a prison building there.
Health officials said four people were killed and 25 wounded in the attack.
A column of black smoke towered from the building, and some inmates of the compound's prison fled after the missiles struck.
Hamas police recaptured some of them.
The compound is a major symbol of the Hamas group's authority.
Minutes after the strike, Hamas police defiantly planted the movement's green flag in the rubble.
But, even as Israel bombed Gaza, defiant Hamas leaders threatened revenge.
Speaking in Gaza City on Sunday, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum called on the Hamas military wing and all Palestinian factions "to remain on high alert and to take charge and take on the responsibility of defending the Palestinian people, and to target the Zionists deeply with fierce and severe attacks."
Meanwhile, residents in southern Gaza were sifting through the rubble of earlier strikes.
One airstrike hit the local municipality building, causing major damage, but no injuries were reported.
Earlier, Israeli aircraft targeted a tanker truck in the town, touching off a blaze that raged out of control and spread to about a dozen nearby houses.
One of the main medicine warehouses supplying local pharmacies in southern Gaza was attacked in another sortie.
Local residents said the tanker and the warehouse contained supplies that had been smuggled into Gaza through underground tunnels with Egypt, suggesting Israel was widening its offensive to go after businesses that are a source of income for Hamas.
The initial waves of attacks on Saturday focused on key Hamas security installations and rocket-launching pads.
The Palestine Liberation Organisation, dominated by Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, called a one-day commercial strike through the West Bank and urged Palestinians to take to the streets in peaceful protests.
In east Jerusalem, which is mainly populated by Arabs, youths burned tyres in the streets and threw stones at Israeli police officers to protest the Gaza attacks.
The bombing campaign has inflamed public opinion across the Arab world, which has responded with protests and condemnations.
Crowds of thousands swept into the streets of cities around the Middle East to protest at Israel's air assault.
Meanwhile, militants in Gaza, unbowed, kept up the pressure on Israel, firing dozens of rockets and mortars at Israeli border communities on Sunday.
Two rockets struck close to the largest city in southern Israel, Ashdod, some 38 kilometres (23 miles) from Gaza, reaching deeper into Israel than ever before.
The targeting of Ashdod confirmed Israel's concern that militants are capable of putting major cities within rocket range.
No serious injuries were reported in any of the attacks on Sunday.