One Palestinian killed, 50 wounded in confrontations with Israelis
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 2/19/2001

The Israeli military attacks continued against the Palestinian people in the occupied Arab lands and more Palestinians were killed or wounded, as the Israeli occupation forces tightened their siege on the Palestinian towns and villages.

The Israeli officials threatened to take more oppressive measures against the Palestinians.

News reports from the palestinian territories said the Palestinian citizen Ahmad Faraj Ala eddine ( 33 year old) was killed by the Israeli occupation fire in Hebron. He is the third Palestinian to be killed in the city in confrontation with the Israeli forces.

Some 50 Palestinians were wounded by the fire of the Israeli tanks and armored vehicles against Khan Younis camp to the south of Gaza. They were workers in their way to an industrial area near " Nefe Dekalim" settlement. This coincided with a campaign of arrest carried out by the Israeli soldiers and included the officer at the Palestinians preventive security department Burhan Sbeih and 10 teenagers from Jerusalem.

The Israeli forces, meanwhile, tightened measures against the Palestinians and prevented the entry of oil and its all by-products to Gaza.

The advisor at the Israeli war ministry David Hakham threatened to escalate the attack measures against the Palestinians. He said " continued military besiege is not a temporarily measure. It is rather a continuous policy aiming at suppressing the Palestinian Intifada."

Meantime, the Israeli authorities released on Sunday the settler Yuram Skolnik who was convicted in 1993 of killing a Palestinian after he was sentenced a life imprisonment, claiming that his behavior at prison gave him the chance to be released.

On the other hand, the UN fact finding commission has completed its investigations concerning the reasons behind the eruption of the Intifada stressing that the " situation is intensified in the occupied territories and that there are many problems as a result of Israel's use of force and its closure of the Palestinian areas and demolishing of the Palestinian properties."

The committee indicated that it did not meet any of the Israeli officials who refused these investigations and that it will submit its report to the UN human right committee in March.

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