Hebron today, soundbites inc. Arafat on settlement plans

Hebron 1. Low wide shot of tanks passing in street 2. Mid of tank passing 3. Pull out from tank gun barrel to tank 4. Tank driving in street 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mustafa Abed Ilnabi Ilnatsheh, Mayor of Hebron: "What the (Israeli) Prime Minister Sharon said yesterday, this is part of the plan which has been imposed since '67 to have the domination over the old city and the quarters around the Brahimi mosque and to connect (the Jewish settlement of) Kiryat Arba" 6. Shot over his shoulder of mayor reading newspaper 7. Close up of hand holding paper Jerusalem 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Avi Pazner, Israeli Government Spokesman: "About Hebron, as you know 12 of our people were massacred Friday night and we have to take measures to protect Israelis living there. So, we are going to take security measures. So in that framework, we are going to beef up our presence in this area because one of the reasons why this massacre took place is because it was an isolated place, very difficult to get there and there are so few people there. So we are going to take the right measure in order to prevent in the future any such attack". 9. Pazner talking on telephone at desk Ramallah 10. Various of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat outside his offices 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader: "This is more escalation to implement their plan against the Palestinian people, against the peace of the brave which we have signed with our party and with Rabin, against the peace in the whole Middle East." 12. Crowd of journalists on steps outside Arafat's offices. STORYLINE: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's call to strengthen the Jewish settlements in the Hebron area, was condemned by Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat on Monday as a further provocation. Speaking from outside his Ramallah headquarters, Arafat said that such action would cause an escalation of violence. Hebron's mayor, Mustafa Abed Ilnabi Ilnatsheh, said the Israeli action in Hebron was part of a long-term plan to dominate the West Bank town. Sharon's made his comments while touring Hebron on Sunday, two days after Palestinian gunmen killed 12 Israeli security forces and guards there. He said that Israel would bolster the Jewish settlements in the Hebron area by linking up several small settler enclaves in the city and the neighboring Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, just to the east of Hebron, Israeli radio stations reported. About 450 Jewish settlers live in several enclaves near the center of Hebron, a city with about 130,000 Palestinian residents. In addition, several thousand settlers live in Kiryat Arba, less than a kilometre (about a half-mile) away. Tens of thousands of Palestinians live between the Hebron and Kiryat Arba settlements, and there is no obvious way to link up the Israeli settlements without displacing the Palestinians. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4ac688575403b9b1731d7364bf33c493 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork