WRAP Funerals of 4 Pal militants, Haniyeh reax, anniv of captured Israeli soldier

(29 Aug 2006) Gaza City 1. Exterior of mortuary 2. Bodies being carried out of mortuary 3. Men carrying body 4. People chanting, shooting in the air 5. Wide of funeral procession 6. Men walking, carrying guns at the front of the funeral procession 7. Wide shot of funeral procession Gaza City 8. Exterior of Palestinian Cabinet building in Gaza 9. Palestinian ministers arriving 10. Wide of meeting 11. Set up shot of Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian Prime Minister 12. Wide of meeting 13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian Prime Minister: "The Palestinian government condemns the savage massacres committed by the occupation forces in Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which are committed daily in each area, and that lately led to the death of eight of our Palestinian people, four of them from a special (Palestinian) force." 14. Medium shot of Haniyeh in meeting 15. Cabinet members Kerem Shalom, Israel 16. Mother and sister of Gilad Shalit walking to birthday party venue 17. Mother and sister crying 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Noam Shalit, father of Gilad Shalit: "Today is Gilad's 20th birthday and we just want to mention this day and to make here a little, modest event that will remind everybody in Israel that there is still an Israeli soldier in Gaza Strip kept by the Hamas people." 19. Relatives and friends standing with balloons 20. Noam Shalit releasing balloons to the air STORYLINE: The funerals of three Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on Sunday were held in Gaza City on Monday. Hundreds participated in the funeral procession, chanting slogans as the bodies were carried through the streets. Two television cameramen were also wounded in the attack, Palestinian officials and residents said. Early on Monday four Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza, Palestinian doctors said. The four men were standing on a street in the Shajaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza City when a missile hit them, witnesses said. An Israeli army spokesman said that troops operating in the area shot and killed three armed Palestinians in an exchange of fire. He did not know of a fourth man killed. Israeli troops have been operating in Shajaiyeh since Saturday. Speaking at the Cabinet's weekly meeting in Gaza Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned Israel's air strikes. "The Palestinian government condemns the savage massacres committed by the occupation forces in Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which are committed daily in each area," he said. A fifth Palestinian was shot and killed near the southern Gaza town of Rafah, according to witnesses and hospital officials. Salama Abu Adwan was returning home when he was shot by an Israeli tank that was shooting at empty agricultural fields near the closed Gaza airport, where Israeli troops had been operating for 10 days, a witness and hospital officials said. The army said it was looking into the incident. Also in southern Gaza, Hamas gunmen shot a motorist who refused to stop at a roadblock, witnesses said. The gunmen said they came under fire from the approaching car and returned fire. The violence came as Israeli soldiers - backed by two dozen tanks, two bulldozers, helicopters and unmanned aerial drones - combed an area just inside the Gaza Strip in what the army said was a search for "terror infrastructure," particularly tunnels. In Israel on Monday family and friends of Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas on June 25, marked his 20th birthday. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...