Various scenes from the second intafada, palestinian uprising. late 2000. Israeli special forces and police clash with stone and shoe-throwing Palestinian protestors. This is raw footage (in more than one sense) - shots can be short and/or unsteady but many good shots to be found here. Much of this takes place at the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif. Other scenes appear to be in a neighborhood street.
Cus of medical personnel, doctors, nurses etc. working on wounded palestinian child. Cam hovers over bloody child and personnel frantically attend to him. One doctor speaks to cam, microphone is thrust in front of him as he explains (starts in english then switches to arabic) that the child has suffered gunshot wounds. When he is done talking , the child is dead. Activity in the room slows, as personnel now concentrate on showing the child's wounds to the camera and removing the equipment and breathing apparatus that they used to try to save him. CUs od the gunshot wounds and other injuries.
(Saved QT) MS camera tracks a group of about 20 young palestinians as they emerge from behind some dumpsters and flag down an ambulance. Ambulance pulls up as the group, in chaos, carries an injured man to it. They load him in, ambulance backs up into the group which then scatters and reassembles behind the dumpster. WS group in street behind dumpsters throwing objects at a burning building from which an Israeli flag flies.
(Saved QT) MS protest/funeral march in street, men with rifles, young boys, chanting, shouting. CU man holding up front of a stretcher with the victim, chants, walks towards camera. SV MS men carrying stretcher. CU man again. Cuts to MCU man helping veiled woman get out of a car - she is distraught. WS men marching in street - gun shots ring out. MS high angle shot as stretcher is wlaked through crowd. High angle man with megaphone leading crowd. CU weeping woman.
(Saved QT) WS street. MWS men standing around - some in b/g throwing stones etc. Men with guns, back to camera. Cuts to zoomed in MCU of father and child huddled behind a wall - dust and smoke around them. The child is screaming - shouts from onlookers off camera. The father waves his hand in accusation to off camera soldiers. Tries to hold son close behind him. Lots of gunshots, smoke, shaky camera - hard to see what's happened here but the child - with now bloody torso - is slumped over the father's lap . Father slumps down sort of dazed. Cuts to WS looking up at helicopters firing something out of them - small plumes of smoke. Crowds, soldiers, in street. Various WS Israeli tanks in field.
TLS funeral procession/protest. Young man in front of stretcher leading chant, as it is carried through street. Lots of smoke. Zoom out overhead shot. MS of dead child on stretcher. Sound of children's voices in protest - part of procession.
(Saved QT) Street skirmish at dusk. Late sunset light, gunfire, shouting, chaos in street. Cuts to daylight sequence of skirmish seen earlier with young men in street throwing rocks at buldings where Israeli flags fly. Looks like former military/secruity post. VS kids throwing rocks, uding sling-shots.
Various CUs as camera moves through loud chaotic funeral procession - casket is carried through crowd, another cameramn moves through crowd. Chanting. CU two women shout, chant or pray. SV OTS soldier as procession passes. Cus protesters. Casket passes camera.
(Saved QT) City skirmishes. MWS SV kids in street with fires burning, picking up rocks and throwing them. They stand behind a building and some make-shift street barricade (oil drums and wood sheets etc.) Great MS of a photographer with his camera standing hear a soldier with his rifle. VS street skirmish action - kids throws a stone - a soldier fires his gun, ambulance drives off - screaming siren. All close 'good' action. This street looks like it was a busy business area that is now abandoned to violence and decimated and fires burn in the street, and debris is all over the sidewalks. Another good shot OTS solider with rifle aimed into street, photographer with cameras walks towards him. VS men throwing stones. Group of Israeli sodlier in retreat. Men on top of small building - one fires slig-shot. MCU soldiers in lookout tower. WS street. WS boypushing oil drum into debris filled street. Fire burns, flames. MS crowd of young palestinians throwing rocks in street. Fiire blazing in street - black smoke and orange flames.
(Saved QT) WS men in road face off with Israeli soldiers in jeep. Jeep is pelted with stones - retreats. MS SV israeli sodlier lays on ground, fires rifle. WS SV other soldiers lined up on ground, firing. MS SV soldier leaning up against rock wall, fires rifle. TLS palestinians in road help an injured boy away. MS Palestinian Policman stands with teenagers, crowd in background. MWS as two men run with an injured person towrads and past camera. Cam follows as they rush towrads ambulance. Quick shot of man inside ambulance - medical personnel attend to his abdominal wound.
VS of Palestinian soldiers and police pointing rifles at israeli jeeps in distance. Some good OTS shots. SV soldiers lined up. Cuts to WS hundereds of palestinians running, shouting along road, debris on road. They run and walk towards camera. SV MS Israeli Special forces fire cartridges at them. VS special forces firing, wlaking towards and away from crowd. VS special forces closer to crowd, firing more rapidly, running - more intesne action. Could be tear gas cartridges - not sure.
TLS Palestinians gathered around a makeshift barricade on a highway or other main road. Could be a security check point. Cuts to MCU Ambulance ride towards and past camera on highway. Cam follows. MS car driving towards camera - away from faliming orange burning vehicle. WS road - building in distance is hit with explosive. Palestinian man walks across cam - walks back into frame with palestinian flag. Smoke in b/g. VS gunfire, street skirmishes, MS, MCU palestinians running in street - injured person lies in the road alone. Small groupd of palestinians with guns, strategize, gather around abandoned building. Group gathers around ambulance pulling into scene. Quick shot of kids behind barricades - LS. WS empty debris filled street with small fires burning.
VS street skirmish. Lots of gunfire. Palestinians with guns try to shoot over a wall. Some are throwing rocks. Tires, oil drums and other debris on ground - this looks like a compound of some sort. Fences and stone walls. Cam follows action. Loud shouting crowd of men rush a wounded palestinian to an ambulance - action towrads camera. They load him in - man in blood-stained shirt passes camera. More shooting, ambulance drives into crowd - away.
VS Israeli soldiers and tanks - huge intimidating armored tanks in street. Jeeps pass by on road. Good MS SVTank rolling down road. Three tanks lined up on road. Tank drives towards camera. Soldiers visible atop turret. MCUs OTS Israeli soldiers, shototing rifles. Low angle shot tank driving towards camera - sunset light, dusk. Nice. Other tanks drive past. Cam follows as tanks drive away down street. VS tanks on the move. Low angle WS looking up at helpcopter in blue sky. Evening, tanks on road.
CU protesters marching, chanting in street, many palestinian flags and banners. CU men chanting, shouting. Overhead high angle shot of crowd. Cu crowd chanting again. MS crowd slowly moving towards camera, quiet, no chanting or shouting now - one person holds up picture of Yassir Arafat. Orderly marching, protest.
VS Uniformed Palestinians try to remove and disperse a crowd of young palestinian men around the same israeli security post or check point that they were trhowing stones at earlier in this same tape. The men are climbing over the fence, trying to pillage and destroy whatever they can with wathever they can find. One guy gets to the Israeli flag and tries to take it down. Another uses a wooden stick to beat on the structure. More shots of the guy trying to take the Israeli flag down. He tears it. Wider shot same. Flag is down. Shots ring out and the boys quickly try to disperse. One gets caught in some barbed wire near a fence. CU men carrying a wounded teenager. Vs men carrying wounded. Crowd.
Ws hundreds of palestinian men in road throwing rocks. MWS Israeli soldiers fire at the crowd from their jeep. TLS Palestinian men run with wounded man towards crowd. MS men throwing stones. Mcu same. TLS Israeli jeeps. MCU older men in long robes throwing stones. MWS 2 jeeps drive towards crowd. MS Palestinians in olive groves, gathering and throwing stones. MWS Israeli jeeps pull up towards groves and open fire.