Four Palestinians were killed, 20 wounded including children
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/18/2001

The Israeli aggressions continued on Friday against the Palestinians amid threats voiced by the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon of more escalation and his refusal to send UN observer forces to protect the Palestinians. The Palestinians strongly confronted the invading forces.

Meantime, four Palestinians were killed by the Israeli bullets at Kesoviem crossing in Gaza and 8 teenagers were wounded during the confrontation in al-Mintar area.

News reports said that the Palestinian teenager Shadi al-Ammarin was seriously wounded when a bullet hit him in the head and " Yahya Khalaf" had a bullet in hit him in his stomach.

The Israeli tanks, backed by tanks and bulldozers incurred in vast areas into Rafah until the border line with Egypt and destroyed plants and demolished several houses near al-Brazil quarters and this resulted in wounding 7 Palestinians including 5 children many of them are in critical health conditions. The two Palestinians Naser al-Badawi and Majid al-Masri were seriously wounded as a result of the Israeli tanks bombardment of Nablus while the Palestinians wounded one Israeli settler in Hebron.

The Israeli forces tightened its closure of the cities of Bethlehem, Ramullah and Qalqilya and prevented Arab citizens from leaving them.

Sharon threatened to escalate the aggressions if the Intifada will not be halted. His threats were expressed during a tour he made on certain settlements in the West Bank in which he was accompanied by the Israeli army chief of staff Shaoul Mofaz.

One of Sharon's advisors, Alen baker said that Israel refuses sending any UN force for observing and that it has been carrying a political and diplomatic campaign to prevent the adoption of resolutions at the UN Security Council.

Meantime, Israeli settlers converted one mosque in Satour village near nablus into a Jewish synagogue. An opinion poll held by the Israeli daily Maareve said that most of the Israelis are not pleased by what the government of Sharon has achieved at the security level.

In Paris, the French weekly " L' Express " described Sharon's policy as blind and only left for the Palestinian hatred and repression.

The French paper added that Sharon thinks he will be able to end the Palestinians and that the US and the European Union have to formulate a strategy for peace.

Also in Paris, the official spokesman for the French foreign ministry Francois Revaso said that there is no way to get out of the blocked road in the Middle East without resorting to political dialogue. A matter which is a priority for the European Union.

In a statement he made in Paris on Friday, Revaso voiced France's support and backing to sending UN observers to the occupied Palestinian territories and demanding the Israeli forces to abrogate its occupation of " the Orient House " in Jerusalem.

Previous Stories:
  Israeli settlers kill one Palestinian   (8/17/2001)
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