One Israeli settler killed, five soldiers wounded, one Palestinian killed
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/21/2001

The Israeli forces continued its attacks against the Palestinians and opening fire at their houses though a ceasefire was announced between the two sides. The Israeli attacks resulted in killing one Palestinian and many others were wounded and several arrested.

In retaliation, the Palestinians continued their confrontations of the Israeli forces and this by its turn resulted in killing one Israeli settler and wounding five soldiers in an ambush.

Palestinian security officials said that one Palestinian was killed by the Israeli army bullets at a barrier in Gaza on Thursday just after wounding five israeli soldiers in a fire exchange near a settlement in the sector.

The sources explained that Munir Mustafa Abu Mousa (33 year old) was killed near a barrier between Kafer daroum settlement and the aggregation of Ghoushe Katieve settlements.

Earlier, an Israeli military spokesman said that five Israeli soldiers were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at them from a car near Kafer Daroum settlement in Gaza.

Meantime a Palestinian source said that the Israeli army opened fire from its military position near the borders with Egypt with a mortar shell lending at the Palestinian military intelligence position in Bawabet Salah eddine ( Salah eddine gate).

The source added that the soldiers of the same Israeli position opened another mortar at the houses of the Palestinians in Salah Eddine gate and this resulted in inflicted heavy damages in one of the houses.

Meanwhile, an Israeli military patrol kidnapped two young men from Deir Nibala village near Jerusalem, Nizar Meidan and Majed Khalaf. The Palestinian sources added that the two youths are from the Fatah movement.

The Hebrew Language radio admitted kidnapping the two Palestinians, claiming they are from the leadership of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem and they do live in Deir Nibala village.

However, in confrontation between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers one Israeli settler was killed near Tkou' settlement to the east of Bethlehem. The Israeli Hebrew language radio said that another Israeli settler was wounded and in a critical health condition.

The Israeli forces, on the other hand, continued the policy of siege and demolishing houses and leveling lands. On Thursday the Israeli forces bulldozed more than 15 dunnums of the Palestinian agricultural lands falling under the Palestinian authorities near Mouraj settlement in Rafah to the south of Gaza.

The chairman of the military liaison committee in the south of Gaza Col. Khaled Abu al-La said explained that two Israeli armored vehicles leveled more than 15 dunnums of the agricultural lands in the area falls under the Palestinian control near the Israeli Mouraj settlement in Rafah.

The Israeli forces also imposed a curfew on the Palestinian villages and cities in Qalqilya district in the occupied west bank.

Moreover, the Israeli Hebrew language radio said that the Israeli authorities summoned additional military forces to the surrounding of the said area including Commandos units and other units specialized in acts of assassination and kidnapping and this reveals the possibility of implementing kidnapping operations of the Palestinian Intifada activists.

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