Three Palestinians killed on Thursday's confrontations
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/1/2000

In its escalation of its aggressive war against the palestinian people, Israel has deployed additional forces to the West Bank and Gaza strip in order to tighten the military and economic siege its has imposed on the occupied Palestinian territories since more than two months.

Meantime, the Israeli forces rocketed Palestinian houses in Khan Younis, Gaza and the crossing of Goushe Kateive settlements. The bombardment were expanded to target Nablus, al-Khalil and Ramullah under the pretext of chasing the stone throwers. This resulted in wounding several Palestinians, according to Palestinian medical sources.

The clashes with the Israeli forces which covered all the Palestinian territories resulted in killing three Palestinians. They are Ismael Abu al-Rous who was killed by the Israeli bullet at al-Breij camp in Gaza. the second one was killed near Beitar Eleit settlement in the West Bank while the third was Walid Muhammad Ahmad al-Badan in al- Taqa village in Bethlehem.

In parallel to the military escalation in the West bank and the Gaza strip, Israel continued its policy of repression and terrorism against the Palestinians of 1948 territories. On Thursday the Israeli authorities deployed thousands of israeli soldiers at al-Jalil and al-Karmel areas.

Within the Israeli attempts to undermine the Palestinian Intifada, and in the course of the attempts made by Israel' s prime minister, the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on Thursday proposed to transfer 10% extra parts of the of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority, according to a long-term provisional agreement, as he claimed.

Israel, on the other hand, renewed its rejection to deploy an international force in the occupied Palestinian territories in order to protect the Palestinians from the israeli aggressions.

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