A funeral for three Palestinian women killed by the Israeli fire
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/11/2001

While thousands of Palestinians on Sunday held an eulogy for the three Palestinian women who were killed on Saturday by the fire of the Israeli tanks in al-Sheikh Ajleen area, the Israeli forces continued its bombardment of the Palestinian houses and roads axes in the West Bank and Gaza by tanks and heavy artilleries, resulted in killing two other Palestinians and wounding many others, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources added that the Israeli bulldozers bulldozed tens of dunnums of agricultural lands in al-Qarrar village owned by Palestinians to the south of the Gaza strip near Kasavim barrier while the Israeli army prevented the access of oil and gas for the second running week to Gaza in the context of the siege imposed by the Israeli forces against Gaza and the West Bank since several months.

One Palestinian woman was killed on Saturday because of wounds after the Israeli tanks had bombarded the tent she lives in at al-Sheikh Ajleen district. Another Palestinian man was killed by the same Israeli means, while six Palestinians were arrested in the West Bank when the Israeli forces opened fire on them under the pretext of resisting the Israeli authorities.

The Israeli forces also arrested 7 Palestinian young men in the West Bank, four of them are from habla village in Qalgilya and the others are from Harith and Khurbet Dabgha villages in Nablus.

The Israeli radio claimed that the detention was made because these youths carried out several operations against Israeli positions and barriers in the occupied territories.

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