Report in Gaza where the situation is very difficult. The MSF clinic is home to many gunshot wounds. In the southern Gaza Strip in Rafah, the Egyptian authorities decided to open the border for a week to allow families to flee. Tarek and his family are preparing to flee to Egypt for 10,000 euros. Commentary on factual images alternating with the interview of Marie-Elisabeth INGRES, head of mission Doctors without Borders, the testimony of Tarek and his wife and plateau in situation of Liseron Boudoul.
Report in Gaza where Hamas in power attacks Fatah militants and disavows the negotiations that will take place in Annapolis, USA, between Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, and Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister. Commentary on factual and archival images alternating with the interview of Fawzi BARHUM, Hamas spokesman, Azim Abu SHANAB, Fatah Directorate in Gaza, Mustafa SIHAM and Abu NADER, Fatah militants. [Source: France 2 prompter] Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister and Mahmoud Abbas... (OFF) ...the President of the Palestinian Authority arrived in the United States today... In two days, they will meet again to try to revive the peace process in the Middle East, in the city of Annapolis... Talks to be held without Syria, Iran and Hamas 5 months after taking power in Gaza, the Islamist movement still considers the men of Mahmoud Abbas, who are about to discuss, as traitors to their cause... Report Renaud Bernard, Talal Abou Ramet
Reactions in the Palestinian world after the victory of Mahmoud ABBAS who becomes President of the Palestinian Authority. Meeting with students from Bir Zeit University near Ramallah. Commentary on images of Mahmoud ABBAS, in the midst of the crowd, after his election; of Sheikh Hassan YOUSSEF, at a meeting of the Bir Zeit University near Ramallah. He trained all the cadres of the Palestinian Nationalist Movement and is wanted by the Israelis; of the testimonies of students who expect a lot from this election for the peace program- On the spot, in Ramalah, Gérard GRIZBEC comments on the situation.
On the eve of the Palestinian presidential elections, meeting with Palestinians in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, to find out their point of view on the favorite candidate Mahmoud ABBAS.Meeting with residents who evoke the right of return of Palestinian refugees and the issue of rockets fired by Hamas that led to a deadly occupation of the territory by the Israelis.
Yasser ARAFAT won the first Palestinian elections with 85% of the vote. Commentary off on factual images and interviews with Jimmy CARTER, former President of the United States, on the smooth running of the elections, Yasser ARAFAT and Imad FALOUJI, elected representative of the Palestinian National Council, on his support for the Hamas movement.
After some images of the city of Amman in Jordan, interview with Yasser ARAFAT, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in a cave in the mountain. He speaks in Arabic, translated simultaneously. He says about the Palestinian resistance: "We do not care about the UN resolutions that try to give the acts of banditry and piracy of Israelis a legality that we do not recognize under any circumstances. We recognize only one fact, that of being a people that must return home, and this people has chosen the only way of return, that of armed struggle. The politics of our movement does not interfere in the affairs of the Arab states. Our relations with everyone stem from our conception of the Palestinian cause. We are not against anyone as long as we are allowed to advance on the path of liberation and recovery of our country."
Interview of Yasser ARAFAT from his headquarters in a refugee camp in Beirut. He denounces the behaviour of the Israeli government. He explains that the solution to the Palestinian problem is the establishment of a single state where Jews, Christians and Muslims will coexist.