Israeli forces continue bombarding West Bank, Gaza
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/7/2001

The Israeli forces on Monday intensively bombarded several towns in the West Bank and Gaza and the Palestinian teenagers retaliated by opening fire into an Israeli military vehicle upon running near Nelli settlement to the south of the West Bank and targeted in their fire an Israeli armored vehicle near Ramullah.

The Israeli tanks bombarded three positions for the Palestinian security forces in Qalqilya while an Israeli car was attacked on the road leading to the city, resulted in killing one Israeli settler and wounding other four.

The Israeli occupation forces demolished two houses in Deir al-Assad village of the occupied territories of 1948 and arrested Nihad Abu Leshk ( 22 year old) of the Hamas movement from Toulkarem and Nidal Abu Saadeh from Beit Djin village.

Meantime, several Israeli extremist settlers on Monday held a demonstration on the Jerusalem- Tel Aviv road in protest of what they called the " deteriorated security conditions." Meantime, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon renewed his rejection to sending UN observers to the West Bank and Gaza. In a telephone call with the UN secretary General Kofi Annan, Sharon asked for practicing pressures on the Palestinian territories to halt what he called terrorism, ignoring the policy of assassination daily conducted against the Palestinians. Sharon accused Arafat of not moving towards preventing what he called terrorism and that he refuses to arrest Palestinians who plan operations against Israel. Sharon renewed the position of Israel which rejects any withdrawal from occupied Jerusalem, according to international legitimacy resolutions. He said that Jerusalem will be always the capital of Israel for ever and he will not give up any thing related to what he called Israel.

Following a meeting included Sharon, his foreign minister Shimon Peres and others, members in the Israeli Knesset, Israel renewed its rejection of any political negotiations with the Palestinian authority before halting the Intifada.

For its part, the Palestinian authority refused the arrest of any of the 7 Palestinian activists who are put by Sharon on the list of persons that are to be assassinated. The Palestinian authority for media and culture Yasser Abd Rabbu called on the Palestinian authority to work for taking necessary measures to halt the practices of the Israeli settlers before demanding the arrest of activists among the Palestinians. He stressed that the government of Sharon has to arrest 50 Israeli settlers who carry out acts of killing and terrorism against the Palestinians.

Meantime, the secretary of the Fatah movement Marwan al-Barghouthi called on Arafat to ask for convening an international conferences under the auspices of the UN in order to set a timetable to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories including Jerusalem, and to eliminate the settlements from the West Bank and Gaza.

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