A Palestinian detonates a coach, three Israelis killed
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/30/2001

A Palestinian youth on Thursday detonated himself in a coach in al-Khudeira to the north of Israel and this resulted in killing three Israelis.

Tel Aviv immediately held the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat responsible for the attack, while the Israeli army continued its escalation of aggressions and acts of assassination and this by its turn resulted in killing three Palestinians.

The development of these acts of violence coincided with an active move for the two American envoys William Burns and Antony Zeini.

However, before he heads for the US, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon stressed persistence to completely halt the acts of violence for seven days before making any negotiations. He said:" By the ultimate end we will reach a solution by which there will be a Palestinian state according to an agreement and this state should be unarmed." The Israeli police said that a bomb detonated inside a coach on Thursday evening inside a coach near Bardis Hana in the north of Israel and this resulted in killing four persons including the executor of the operation and six were wounded.

The Palestinian authority condemned this operation and a spokesman for the Palestinian authority said that the Palestinian leadership denounces that attack at Israeli civilians and that the PA once again works at its full capacity to halt all forms of attacks on the Israeli civilians." He Palestinian spokesman added that the Palestinian security agencies were instructed to investigate in the attacks and to chase those who committed it and to bring them before the justice.

Meantime, two Palestinians workers were murdered on Thursday evening when Israeli soldiers at an Israeli barrier opened fire suddenly at cars for Palestinian citizens in al-Hamraa area to the east of Tammoun town in the province of Toulkarem. The incident took place during evening time and the approach of al- Iftar time as roads were crowded with hundreds of workers and employees who have were returning back from their work. This pushed one of the workers to try to return back and change his road and then the Israeli soldiers opened fire at him in his rent car. He is Rashad Abul Rahman Muhanna ( 45 year old) from Ateel town who was killed while the second murdered Palestinian whose identity was not known was kidnapped and taken to one of the Israeli hospitals.

The Israeli soldiers besieged thousands of Palestinians at the barrier and prevented them from moving and this is a daily scene especially in the holy month of Ramadan at all Israeli military barriers.

On Wednesday evening the Israeli forces kidnapped the Palestinian youth Rami Mansour and opened fire at him at al-Shuhadaa cross-road to the south of Gaza and lef him bleeding to death.

Medical sources at al-Shefaa hospital said the death resulted from bleeding and he was hit by four bullets in the tummy and hands and legs.

On Thursday evening the Israeli army incurred more than 800 meters into the territories fall under the rule of the Palestinian authority in Beit Lahia town to the north of Gaza.

On Thursday morning an Israeli force incurred into the east of Jerusalem and broke into a factory for oxygen - producing balloons and confiscated most of its equipment and electrical instruments.

Another Israeli force incurred into Soufa crossing and an Israeli force bombarded Palestinian houses in the quarters of Khan Younis and this resulted in wounding two girls.

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