Continued Israeli threats against the Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2001

Palestinian youth Hashem al-Mamlouk ( 18 year old) was killed after he was hit at al-Mintar crossing while two other Palestinians were wounded during the confrontations between the Palestinian Intifada youths and the Israeli soldiers which stopped thousands of Palestinians who were traveling at Beir- Zeit Ramullah road in the downtown of the West bank.

Eye- witnesses said that hundreds of Palestinian students demonstrated after long hours of waiting at the barrier installed by the Israeli forces on the road leading to Beir Zeit university and threw stones at the Israeli soldiers.

Meantime, confrontations renewed on Wednesday between the Intifada youths and the Israeli forces near Khurda village to the North of Ramullah where the Israeli forces used fire bullets and poisonous gas against the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, the Israeli forces tightened their siege on the villages close to "Etimar" settlement in Nablus and summoned additional forces backed by tanks and armed vehicles deployed in the surrounding of the areas which witnessed the killing of a settler on Monday night and the Fatah movement claimed responsibility for killing the settler in reply to the killing of the Palestinian boy Iman Hejjo on Monday, by the Israeli shells while she was at the lap of her mother.

Moreover, the Israeli forces continued its naval siege of the Palestinian coats and intercepted fishing boats off the coasts of Gaza and closed of the Palestinian ports and the land roads leading to them.

The Israeli forces also carried out a campaign of arrest in the territories of 1948 during which 21 Palestinians from Kafer Kana were arrested.

In Deir al-Balah camp, hundreds of Palestinians gathered and held a funeral for the Palestinian baby Iman Hejjo ( 4 months old) and confrontation erupted between the demonstrators and the Israeli forces during which 7 Arab youths were wounded by the bullets of the Israeli soldiers.

On the Israeli side, the Israeli minister of the Interior Ozi Landao threatened to oppress the Intifada by all means, noting that his government has taken decisions to this effect and gave its instructions to the army.

Landao added that his ministry embarks now on studying a plan to close the Palestinian Beit al-Mashreq and offices belong to the Palestinian Authority in occupied Jerusalem.

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