Six Palestinians killed in an Israeli raids
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/31/2001

Tension has escalated in the occupied Palestinian territories after the Israeli forces broke into al-Aqsa mosque. These forces continued destruction of the Palestinian infrastructure and killing more Palestinians under the pretext of killing activists of the Intifada.

Six Palestinians were killed in the Israeli tanks bombardment of the Farah village to the south of Jenin and several others were wounded.

Palestinian sources described the operation as falling in the course of a scheme to liquidate the effective Palestinian cadres in the Fatah movement. Among these who were killed Nasim Ishteh, Abdul Rahman Shtewi, Maher Jawabreh, Muhammad Taye and Hikmat Abu al-Suheil. They age between 24 and 27.

The Israeli forces incurred in Daar Salah Sharmad in Bethlehem, which falls under the Palestinian self rule and inspected several houses, the village mosque and a children school under heavy fired bullets.

News reports said that several children were greatly horrified and were admitted to hospitals after they had collapsed from fear.

The Israeli forces bombed Toubas village near Nablus before the Israeli forces declared the area a " closed military zone." In Jerusalem, the Israeli forces carried out vast mopping up operation in the Arab quarters and inspected Palestinians in the streets, as roads leading to al-Aqsa mosque are still closed.

In Gaza, the Israeli forces carried out vast mopping up operations at Rafah city and three Arabs were strongly wounded while the Israeli bulldozers leveled vast areas of the Palestinian agricultural lands near Gaza.

The Israeli helicopters fired several missiles at the Palestinian police center in the city. This resulted in heavy damages in the neighboring houses and in the targeted building. The missiles fragments resulted in seriously wounding seven Palestinians.

Meantime, the Israeli minister of tourism Rahabham Zeifi called on his government to reoccupy the areas supervised by the Palestinian Authority. He added it is now time to make the Palestinian authority understand that Israel will not give up ( what he called) any concessions, in remarks to the territories of the West Bank and that the most that Israel can give to the Palestinians is to let them live in an atmosphere he called " an atmosphere of calm." Zeifi admitted that all initiatives, recommendations and documents which talked about the possibility of Israel's withdrawal from certain area or news on dismembering certain settlements are just to " throw ashes on the eye." He continued that laying the foundation stone for the third Haikal is an additional step in the right way. He expressed his hope that the Israelis will be able to build the Haikal very soon.

Meanwhile, the Palestinians on Monday held the funeral of the 6 young men who were killed by the Israelis on Sunday. Thousands of Palestinians from the cities of Nablus and Jenin and their adjoining villages gathered at the funeral and chanted slogans calling for revenging Israel.

The Palestinian teenagers threw bombs at the Israeli position near Rafah and fired shells at Kfar daroum to the south of Gaza and Natsareim, while Israeli sources admitted that 28 bombs were thrown at an Israeli position in Rafah.

To this effect, the secretary general of the Fatah movement Marwan al-Barghouthi stressed continued resistance until the Israeli occupation forces are taken out of the occupied territories. He considered that the assassination of 6 Palestinian youths by the Israeli army will be paid heavily by the government of Sharon.

For his part, Arafat's advisor Nabil Abu Rudinah condemned the Israeli new crime against the 6 Palestinians and called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities towards halting the aggression against the Palestinian people.

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