Two Palestinians killed by Israeli bullets
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/20/2001

Two Palestinians were killed on Sunday by the Israeli forces. Maan Abu Lawi ( 38 year old) from Nablus and Muhammad Abu Arar ( 13 year old) after the Israeli forces opened fire on them at a military barrier of the southern entrance of Rafah city, while three other Palestinians were wounded when they tried enter the besieged city.

On Sunday morning three members of the Palestinian security were wounded when an Israeli patrol opened fire at them near Ramullah, while one Israeli settler was strongly wounded after he was stabbed near " Beit Sheifer" settlement.

Meantime, the Israeli forces intensified its presence at the entrance of the main Palestinian cities and villages and at coaches stations and supermarkets in Jerusalem in a new escalation for the repression operation against the Palestinians.

Meantime, one Palestinian infant and two members of the Palestinian police were hit by the shells of the Israeli tanks near Ramullah and a Palestinian security position was hit by two Israeli missiles in Gaza.

Meanwhile, news reports said that the escalation of the Palestinian Intifada against the Israeli government started to threaten the coalition government of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, as split between the " labor" and the " Likud " parties the two main parties in the coalition has been expanded.

The news reports added that just after the recent " suicide operation" which resulted in killing 15 Israelis in a restaurant in Jerusalem, voice in the Israeli " labor" party spoke high and three members in the Israeli government from the labor party led by the foreign minister Shimon Peres opposed Israel's occupation of Palestinian offices in Jerusalem and " Beit al-Sharq," in retaliation to the said operation.

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