An explosion in Tel Aviv killing three Israelis, wounding 10
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/17/2001

The Israeli radio on Monday announced the killing of three Israelis and wounding of 10 of them and are in critical conditions in a new " suicide" attack carried out at Benjamina train station near Tel Aviv.

A source in the Israeli police said that incident resulted in an explosion of a booby trapped car and that the police force and tens of ambulances hurried to the site of the incident. The place was cordoned and the traffic to that area stopped.

On the other hand, the spokesman for the Israeli prime minister Ranaan Gesein held the Palestinian Authority responsible for the explosion.

In another escalation of the continued Israeli aggressions, the Israeli forces bombarded by tanks, artillery shelling a position for the personal guard of the Palestinian President in al-Shweikah street to the west of Toulkarem and this resulted in wounding the Palestinian citizen Muhammad al-Sharqawi and complete destruction of the position.

The Israeli forces also burnt a Palestinian house near the bombarded area.

One Israeli soldier was strongly wounded in the confrontation that took place in Baqa village near Toulkarem while two Israeli settlers were wounded in the same area which was exposed to strong Israeli security measures and breaking in operations in which the Israeli tanks broke into several Palestinian areas and quarters inside Hebron ( al-Khalil) and destroyed four centers for the special guards of the chairman of the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli radio said on Monday that other Palestinian police centers were completely destroyed in Hebron and more than 9 Palestinians were wounded.

Palestinian sources said the Israeli tanks incurred for a distance of 1500 meters inside the area controlled by the Palestinian Authority especially in Raas al-Joura quarters and Doura village.

Meantime, a group of armed Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli army broke into a Palestinian house in Tel al-Rmeidah in Hebron, attacked its owners, while the settlers burnt another house near Kereyat Arbaa settlement after they expelled its occupants.

As the Israeli detention campaign targeted more than 61 Palestinians under many pretexts, tens of Palestinian women observed a sit in at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza in protest of arresting their children and called on the international community to interfere to release them. Statistics shows that there are more than 2581 Palestinians prisoners in the Israeli jails.

Meanwhile, two Palestinians were killed in a bomb explosion in Jerusalem. In the course of the political assassination campaigns carried out by the Palestinian national cadres.

A source in the Israeli police said the two killed Palestinians are Ibrahim Wahadneh and mahmoud Dahawi are from Bethlehem area and members of the Fatah Movement.

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