- Title: ISRAEL: FIVE TOURISTS WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AT ISRAELI/ JORDANIAN BORDER
- Date: 19th November 2003
- Summary: (U4)EXPECTED SHOWS: ARAVA CROSSING, BETWEEN EILAT, ISRAEL AND JORDAN (NOVEMBER 19, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. GV HELICOPTER CIRCLING 0.09 2. WIDE OF HELICOPTER LANDING IN SWIRL OF DUST 0.11 3. VARIOUS OD SOLDIERS DISEMBARKING FROM HELICOPTER AND RUNNING TOWARDS CROSSING 0.30 4. SLV SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH CROSSING 0.39 5. PAN TO SIGN ABOVE CROSSING SAYING"YITZHAK RABIN TERMINAL" 0.40 6. WIDE OF BORDER CROSSING FROM ISRAELI SIDE AND ISRAELI FLAGS 0.54 7. GV HELICOPTER 1.03 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISREALI PARAMEDIC SAYING "This morning we get a message that someone shooting in the border, and we came here. After six minutes we, the crew was here and it was really shooting. Five people. (INTERVIEWER: How many people hurt) PARAMEDIC SAYING: Five people was get hurt, shot, one in the head, very severe and another four, all of them get to the hospital." 1.42 9. WIDESHOT SITE OF ATTACK 1.48 10. WIDE/ PAN OF BORDER 2.02 11. SLV PEOPLE WAITING AT CROSSING 2.07 12. SLV AMBULANCES ARRIVING 2.14 (U4)BEER-SHEBA, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 19, 2003) (REUTERD) 13. WIDE OF HELICOPTER LANDING AT HOSPITAL 2.19 14. PARAMEDICS WHEELING WOUNDED ON STRETCHER FROM HELICOPTER INTO HOSPITAL (4 SHOTS) 3.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: ARAVA CROSSING, BETWEEN EILAT, ISRAEL AND JORDAN, BEER-SHEBA, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL
- Country: Israel
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- Story Text: At least five tourists wounded in shooting attack at Israeli-Jordainian crossing
Israeli security and medical personnel gathered at
the site where a gunman from Jordan wounded five people,
including several tourists, at a usually quiet border
crossing between Israel and Jordan on Wednesday (November
19).
Security officials said the attacker was killed almost
instantly after opening fire at the crossing near the
southern Israeli resort of Eilat.
Five people were wounded and one woman, who was
critically wounded, was evacuated for further treatment to
a hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beer-Sheba.
According to medical sources, five of the wounded are
tourists from Equador. The Equadorean ambassador confirmed
that the wounded are being treated at hospitals in Israel
but had no further details on their condition.
A senior border official said the gunman appeared to
have hidden among Jordanian trucks waiting to unload cattle
and then opened fire on the border post when the tourists
were heading through.
The border area between Jordan and southern Israel has
hardly been touched by more than three years of violence in
a Palestinian uprising.
The border crossing is regularly used by tourists
heading between the Israeli seaside resort of Eilat and
Jordan's ancient rock city of Petra.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
attack, but Palestinian militants have occasionally
launched raids across the Jordanian border into Israel.
The Yitzhak Rabin border crossing was the site of the
signing of a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan in 1994.
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