National mourning observed by the Palestinians, five Palestinians were killed
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/26/2001

Thursday was declared as a Palestinian national mourning day in protest of the mass massacre committed by the Israeli forces in Beit Rima town, at a time when the Israeli forces continued their attacks against the Palestinians inflecting more killing and losses in property.

The Israeli aggressions resulted in killing five Palestinians in Israeli breaking in operations in the Palestinian areas in the West Bank and Gaza where the Israeli forces incurred in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and al-Qarrara area in gaza while violent confrontation continued with the Israeli forces in Bethlehem.

Meantime, an Israeli military force broke into the Palestinian ministry of agriculture in Qalqilya and also broke into another building used by the Palestinian Red Crescent as a care giving medical center.

The court " divan" of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said the Israeli army has not completed yet the military mission it has already started in the Palestinian territories since last Friday.

The Israeli war minister Benjamin Bin Aliazer said that pulling out the Israeli forces from these area is still too early.

For his part, the Israeli infrastructure minister Avigdore Kalahani said that Israeli army will continue occupation of new Palestinian areas and will station on them. He threatened to withdraw from the government if it will decide to pullout from these re- occupied Palestinian territories.

The two members of the Israeli Knesset Shouloumo Bin Ami and Haeim Ramoun proposed a joint plan aiming at implementing the separation plan between Israel and the Palestinian territories unilaterally.

In Washington the US Senate on Wednesday approved offering the financial and military aids to Israel, in the course of the annual foreign aids law.

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