Al-Aqsa uprising continues strongly
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/24/2000

The 26th day of the Palestinian uprising witnessed strong confrontations amid great escalation of the Israeli violence against the Palestinians especially in the Beit Jala village near Jerusalem.

Two Palestinians Saeed al- Tanbour ( 18) year old and Ashraf Habayeb from Nablus ( 18 year old) were killed by the Israeli forces on Monday while four were wounded during confrontations in Bethlehem.

Similar confrontations took place in al-Khalil where an Israeli soldier was killed after fire was opened against an Israeli military position in the city.

Strong confrontations also erupted in the towns of Beit Sahour, Toulkarm and Ramullah, especially at he settlement of Beit Elle, where a French journalist was wounded by the bullets of the Israeli forces after which he was admitted to Ramallah hospital. The Israeli occupation position was exposed to intensive fire near Rafah crossing and then the Israeli forces retaliated by tanks and artillery bombardment against the Palestinian aggregations in the city.

News reports said that most of the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza spent their nights out of homes because the Israeli shelling fell on their houses. The reports said that the bedroom of two small children was hit by the Israeli bombardment and their mother collapsed as a result.

Meantime, the secretary of the Fatah movement Marwan al-Bargouthi said that the uprising will continue and no decision can halt it because the Palestinian people have taken a decision to proceed themselves backed by their national forces and the Arab brothers.

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