Israel continues bombarding, detaining Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/27/2001

The Palestinian Walid al-Saadi ( 53) year old was shot and other two wounded by the Israeli heavy artillery fire opened by the Israeli helicopters against the Palestinian citizens near Jenin city and the Israeli tanks incurred for 400 meters into the area falls under the Palestinian " self rule."

Five Palestinians were wounded when the Israeli tanks bombarded Rafah and its outskirts and this resulted also in destroying many houses. The Israeli forces opened fire randomly at the populated are in Rafah and its suburbs.

On Wednesday at dawn the Israeli forces broke into the Palestinian farms in the surrounding of the Israeli " Ghoushe Katieve " settlement in Gaza and uprooted trees and destroyed green houses and water irrigation cabals in these farms.

The Israeli forces also carried out a vast detention campaign among the Arab citizens and broke into Azoun village in Qalqilya where these Israeli forces arrested 18 citizens after imposing tough military siege and imposed curfew on citizens.

The Israeli forces also arrested 4 citizens from Bear al-Sabai in the territories of 1948, claiming that these persons are accused of stealing equipment from Israeli military positions and tried to smuggle them to the areas of the Palestinian authorities.

In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces arrested several citizens from Osreen and Hawarra villages near Nablus, claiming they belong to cells affiliate to the people's front for the liberation of Palestine.

The Israeli forces also arrested three youths from Salwad village under the pretext they threw explosives at an Israeli coach carrying settlers to " Afraat " settlement and arrested one Palestinian in Yata town under the pretext that he was suspiciously standing near " Karma'il" settlement to the south of Hebron mountain in the west bank.

The Palestinian youths retaliated the Israeli aggressions by opening fire and explosives at several positions for the Israeli army. They detonated an explosive in an Israeli patrol while passing near Beit Awwa village in hebron. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in confrontations between the Palestinian Intifada youths and the Israeli soldiers near Jenin and another Israeli soldier was wounded when he was exposed to stones thrown in confrontation near " Kreyat Arbaa" settlement to the north of Israel.

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