Israel continues breaking into Palestinian territories
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/23/2001

The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday continued its incursion into the areas of the Palestinian Authorities and bombarded by planes and tanks the Palestinian houses. As a result, one Palestinian was killed and several were wounded.

Meantime, units of the Israeli army on Tuesday incurred into the east of Gaza and installed military positions in Broken in area fall under the control of the palestinian Authority.

Another force, backed by tanks, incurred into an area of 400 meters in al-Qarrara town, near Khan Younis and bulldozed vast areas of planted lands, while a third Israeli force incurred for a distance of 300 meters into the area adjoining" Kisovim" military position in Khan Younis.

In Deir al-Balah, the Israeli forces maintained a military incursion during which some 300 dunnums were occupied and then bulldozed.

Meanwhile, the Israeli defense minister Benjamin Bin Aleazer gave his instructions to the occupation army to attack houses of the Palestinian officials.

Sources at the Israeli ministry of defense said that detailed maps were made for this aim to inflect great destruction on the Palestinian official houses, similar to that targeted the house of the chairman of the Palestinian security department Jibril al-Rajoub, three days before.

Bin Aleazer added:" I feel happy when we use planes and tanks against the Palestinians."

On the other hand, the Palestinian youth Khaled Abd Rabbu al-Astal was killed in the attack against one of the Palestinian security barriers in Beitonya town near Ramullah, where five of his colleagues were killed in an earlier attack.

A large demonstration started in Hebron in protest of the Israeli occupation forces bombardment of Alya hospital and the employees of the said hospital observed a sit in before the headquarters of the Red Cross and handed a message of complaint against the terrorist aggressions which also covered in addition to the hospital, four residential areas in the city.

Palestinians detonated an explosive charge near a military position for the Israeli occupation army in hebron, but the Israeli radio said that nobody was hit in the explosion.

One Israeli settler was hit during the confrontation which erupted in Jerusalem when the Palestinians clashed with the Israeli forces and settlers by stones and glass bottles.

An Israeli military spokesman said that three mortars shells went off on Tuesday morning to the east of Erez crossing and that a fourth shell went off near a position to the south of Gaza.

On the other hand, the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held a lengthy meeting with the US ambassador in Tel Aviv Martin Indyk and the US Consul Roland Shleker to discuss the recommendations of the Mitchell committee report.

A spokesman for Sharon said that Israel refuses to resume the negotiations with the Palestinians unless what he called " violence" is halted.

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