Nablus gun battle and aftermath, Ramallah funeral
(11 Apr 2002) Nablus 1. Men donning masks 2. Door of truck being opened 3. Cutaway, woman watching from window 4. Man taking picture of bodybags in truck 5. Bodybags 6. APCs moving down street 7. Wide shot, town audio of gunfire 8. APCs in street 9. Various, gunfire in town 10. APC driving down street 11. Various, people in street 12. Building on edge of hill 13. APCs outside building 14. Women in street 15. Wrecked building 16. Wrecked car 17. Man among wrecked buildings 18. Boy walking over rubble 19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Voxpop: "We have been stuck in the house for ten days, the children are frightened and they cry." 20. Pull out from satellite dishes on wrecked building 21. Another wrecked building 22. Various interiors wrecked building 23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Voxpop: "It's immoral, it's immoral, no food, no water, no water." Ramallah 24. Various, mourners at funeral 25. Body wrapped in Palestinian flag being carried 26. Various, mourners 27. Body wrapped in Palestinian flag being carried STORYLINE: Dozens of bodies from the fierce fighting in and around the Kasbah in Nablus are being kept in large refrigerated lorries which have been commandeered as makeshift morgues. The lorries, which belong to Saafa, the local milk manufacturer, are parked outside the hospital awaiting a lull in the fighting that would allow burials to start taking place. The bodies were wrapped in black polythene bags. Meanwhile sporadic fighting continued in the West Bank city with gunbattles erupting between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces backed by heavy armour and APCs. A number of arrests were made with soldiers stopping and arresting people in the street. Other residents surveyed the damage left by the almost two-week long offensive with many houses reduced to piles of rubble and countless families made homeless. In Ramallah, relatives and family friends attended the grief stricken funeral of twenty year old Osama Salhi from the al Amari refugee camp in Ramallah on Thursday. Family members say Osama was shot on Wednesday while walking with his wife. His body was wrapped in the Palestinian flag as it was carried shoulder high by emotional relatives. 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...
