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(2 Aug 2013) SHOTLIST
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Port of Gaza, Gaza Strip - July 31, 2013
1. Travelling shot of stranded fishing boats with Gaza City in background
2. Travelling shot of fishing boats on shore
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jamal Tolba, Gaza fisherman:
"The fuel problem has paralysed all the fishing. There is a total paralysis. Even if we want to go to a place that is four to five kilometres away, we can't."
4. Wide of fishing boats near shore
5. Mid of man fixing his net on boat
6. Travelling shot of boats on shore
7. Wide shot of boats on shore
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad El-Hissi, deputy of Gaza fishermen's union:
"No Palestinian fisherman can reach the Egyptian side, because of the siege that is imposed on the Palestinian people from the south, the north and the west. It's like we are fishing in a pool - all because of the occupation, and also the Egyptians are not letting us reach their area, their boats hunt us. No Palestinian fisherman dares to reach the southern side."
9. Wide of fishermen's boats
10. Wide of fish market
11. Close of fish on ground in market
12. Mid of men cleaning fish
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abu Hassira, Gaza fish seller:
"The sea is only open for six miles. We don't have enough fuel. How will the fishermen be able to fish? Now the amount of fish we have is not a lot, because the prices are high. People can't afford to buy fish at such prices."
14. Wide of fish vendors sitting near fish on ground
15. Wide of petrol station
16. Wide of queue of cars outside petrol station
17. Mid of man on bicycle putting fuel in motorcycle
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Abu Elhatal, Gaza taxi driver:
"We can't afford the Israeli fuel, it is 7 Shekels per litre. We can't afford it at all. If we don't get Egyptian fuel we can't work."
19. Wide of petrol station
20. Mid of man putting fuel in car
21. Wide of cars queuing outside station
Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip - August 1, 2013
22. Wide of Gaza-Egyptian border with tunnels in foreground
23. Mid of tunnels
24. Mid of tunnels
25. Wide of Egyptian watchtower at border
STORYLINE
The coup in Egypt has cost Gaza's Hamas its most important foreign ally, while more and more ordinary Palestinians are getting caught up in the growing animosity between Egypt's new government and Gaza's Islamist rulers.
At issue are Hamas' ties with Mohammed Morsi, the Egyptian president whom the Egyptian military deposed a month ago, amid mass protests against him.
Egypt's new rulers have portrayed Hamas and Morsi as co-conspirators in a plot to destabilise Egypt and harm the country's interests.
Thousands of workers in impoverished Gaza have been laid off because Egypt has closed the border, while some of the tens of thousands of Palestinians studying and working in Egypt are keeping a low profile for fear being targeted in an anti-Hamas backlash.
The majority of Gaza's 1,200 fishermen are staying in port because Egypt has barred them from entering its waters as part of its new security measures.
Coupled with Israel's long-running restrictions on Gaza fishing, there's little point in heading out to sea, said Mohammad El-Hissi, deputy of the local fishermen's union.
"The Egyptians are not letting us reach their area, their boats hunt us," he said.
A growing Egypt-induced fuel shortage has also exacerbated Gaza's toughest practical problem, a chronic lack of electricity, including rolling blackouts of more than 10 hours a day.
Gaza taxi driver Hassan Abu Elhatal said Israeli fuel is too expensive and forcing people out of work.

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