REPLAY Night airstrike on Gaza, Abbas comment on abduction crisis

(2 Jul 2006) SHOTLIST (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS) ++NIGHT SHOTS++ Gaza City, Gaza Strip 1. Skyline over Gaza City - wide shot flash as strike hits 2. Various ground shots outside the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas 3. Emergency crew at scene, damaged building in background 4. Shot showing interior of damaged building 5. Onlookers on nearby roof 6. Sign outside Haniyeh's office 7. Ambulances at scene (FIRST RUN 2215 F-L-A-S-H) 8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President: "Regarding the soldier, we will surely reach an agreement. It is not a dead-end. People want an acceptable solution and we are trying to find this solution." 9. Journalists at table 10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President: "I am afraid that what is to come is going to be dangerous because we can't bear another serious aggression and another occupation. What is to come maybe more difficult. Our people are live in harsh way under the shelling and the air strike and the bombs but what is to come maybe more difficult." 11. Pan of Abbas at press meeting (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 01 JUL 2006) ++SUNSET SHOTS++ Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip 12. Wide shot of landscape, zoom in as shell explodes and smoke drifts 13. Various of smoke plume drifting 14. Israeli tank with smoking barrel 15. Israeli soldiers, one celebrating 16. Mid shot of skyline with buildings 17. Wide shot of smoke from explosion, AUDIO of shell and explosion 18. Smoke drifting (FIRST RUN 2130 NEWS UPDATE - 01 JUL 2006) Ramallah, West Bank 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghazi Hamad, Palestinian government spokesman: "Look, all the parts are working - the government, the President, the Palestinian factions, the high committee of the Palestinian factions - all of them- they are putting into consideration the whole circumstances. They want to reach a point that we can solve this problem very quickly, without military escalation." 20. Hamad leaving STORYLINE Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in the early hours of Sunday, setting the building on fire. Because of the late hour - 1:45 a.m. (2345 GMT Saturday), the building was empty. A bystander was slightly injured. A few minutes later, Israeli aircraft hit a school in the city, setting a building on fire, witnesses and rescue workers said. No one was hurt. Other targets overnight were Hamas facilities in northern Gaza. Palestinian security officials said two militants were wounded. One later died of his wounds, hospital officials said. He was the second militant killed in the five-day Israeli operation. Though troops remained massed on the border, Israel on Thursday postponed a planned invasion of northern Gaza as international mediators sought a way out of the crisis, sparked by the abduction of an Israeli soldier Earlier in the evening, though, Israeli forces shelled targets in Beit Hanun, in northern Gaza. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that the coming hours would be "dangerous and difficult" for the Palestinian people. Egypt and other foreign mediators have been working to try to resolve the crisis, but Abbas said those efforts had yet to bear fruit. "Regarding the soldier, we will surely reach an agreement. It is not a dead end. People want an acceptable solution," he said. Abbas, who is from the moderate Fatah Party, has worked for Shalit's release. But Hamas, which controls the Palestinian Cabinet, has said he should not be freed without a prisoner swap. =============== Clients are reminded: 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...