Isreal escalates the policy of killing, assassinating the Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/8/2001

In the context of the terrorism escalation and massacres policy committed against the Palestinians, the leadership of the Israeli army on Tuesday ordered its soldiers to open fire at the Palestinians randomly and the way they find it proper.

The spokesman for the Israeli army colonel Olvie Ravovitch said that " we gave these instructions to the soldiers to make opening fire at the Palestinians easier and the soldier to react promptly." Meantime, the Israeli minister of the infrastructure Avigdore Leibeman in the government of Ariel Sharon said that there is no political solution for the conflict with the Palestinians, rather a military solution.

The Israeli minister called for summoning on the Israeli ambassador in Cairo in protest of the statements made by the Egyptian foreign minister Ahmad Maher on Monday in which he described the government of Sharon as a gang of advocates of acts of assassination.

Meantime, the Israeli occupation forces carried out a campaign of arrest covered more than 1000 Palestinians and then expelled most of those detainees to various areas in the West Bank and Gaza.

Three Palestinian children under 13 were hit by the shells of the artilleries fired by the Israeli army on Tuesday at Salah Eddine gate area in Rafah.

Palestinian medical sources described the situation of one of the wounded Palestinian as critical.

The Palestinians retaliated to the Israeli terrorism by attacking by bombs Israeli positions in Rafah. They detonated two explosives in " Mofodotal" settlement near Jenin.

Palestinians also opened fire at an armed Israeli settler in Toulkarem and he was killed immediately. They also opened fire at a car for the settlers near " Tsouvim" settlement which adjoins Qalqilya and this resulted in killing one of the settlers.

Meantime, the Palestinian official in charge of the media in the Palestinian authority Yasser Abd Rabbu announced that the Palestinian Authority asked Israel to hand it 60 Israeli criminals to try them over crimes they had committed against the Palestinians.

Abd Rabbu explained that " those who are named " death teams and the on- road security committee are working under the leadership of the Israeli intelligence " Shein Beit" and those had committed scores of crimes against the innocent Palestinians.

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