Israeli tanks surround Arafat's headquarters

(18 Jan 2002)

1. Tank blocking road near Palestinian Leader, Yasser Arafat's, headquarters
2. Side shot of tank
3. Tank driving along road
4. Tanks parked
5. Close up tank and soldier
6. Tank
7. Wide shot tank pan to another tank in side street
8. Israeli soldiers in street
9. Soldiers approaching apartment block
10. Soldiers going inside
11. Soldiers taking up positions in street
12. APC positioned nearby
13. Palestinian children looking from apartment window and waving
14. More of soldiers occupying building

STORYLINE:

Israeli soldiers stormed and occupied the home of the Palestinian West Bank intelligence chief Tawfik Tirawi on Friday.

IDF soldiers supported by armoured personnel carriers with heavy machine guns surrounded the apartment block in which he lived.

He was not there at the time.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces overlooking Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah were reinforced, as were a number of other Israeli positions in and around the West Bank town.

Palestinian political activist Mustafa Barghouti, who lives near Tirawi in Ramallah's Tira neighborhood, said the Israeli army had re-occupied about 50 percent of the town.

He said that the tanks were very close and paralysing the city. "They are not just closing the main roads in and out but they're inside the neighborhoods cutting access to schools and kindergartens."

Israeli forces were upgrading their presence around Arafat's office in reaction to Thursday night's attack in the northern city of Hadera where a Palestinian gunman opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle.

Six people were killed and 30 injured, Israeli police said.

A Palestinian militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.

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