Two Palestinians killed 11 wounded
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/18/2001

Reports coming from the occupied Arab territories stressed that the recent movements in the region especially what was stated regarding the report of the director of the CIA George Tenet did not make a change on the ground under the Israeli continued policy of attacks and continued siege against the Palestinian people.

Meantime, confrontations between the Palestinian Intifada youths and the Israeli forces resulted in killing one Palestinian youth and 11 others were wounded.

A Palestinian source stressed that the Palestinian teenager Suleiman al-Masri (12 year old) was killed after he was hit by a bullet fired by the Israeli soldiers during a Palestinian demonstration in Rafah region which witnessed confrontation during which the Palestinian youths threw 20 bombs against the Israeli soldiers, while 6 Palestinians were wounded near Khan Younis camp in Gaza.

A Palestinian youth was killed and 4 Palestinians wounded, one is strongly wounded in the confrontation which lasted all Sunday in Khan Younis area to the south of Gaza.

A Palestinian official medical source said that the killed child, called Ali Abu Shawish, who is the fourth Palestinian to be killed since the implementation of what is called "the Tenet plan," sponsored by the US.

Meanwhile, one Israeli soldier was wounded when an explosive went off near the cross-road of Nafi Shamroun settlement in the West Bank where the Israeli forces imposed a siege on the region and carried out a vast inspection campaign, while the Palestinian youth attacked an Israeli inspection military point near Gaza airport.

Moreover, a large explosion took place in one of the restaurants in the heart of Doura village near al-Khalil and this resulted in destroying great parts of the restaurant trodden by the Palestinians. It is expected that the explosion was a result of a bomb placed by the Israeli settlers.

Moreover, the Israeli army announced Tel Roumida and Beit Hadasa in al-Khalil a closed and sealed military zone with the aim to prevent members of the Israeli Knesset of the Israeli Merits movement from demonstration against the settlements built by the Israeli occupation authorities in the region.

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