Israel kidnaps five Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/2/2002

With the announcement of the return back of the American envoy Anthony Zinni to the region, Israel has started escalation in the occupied Palestinian territories and on Tuesday broke into Qabateyah town of Jenin district, demolished several houses and carried out breaking in operation during which they arrested four Palestinian youths. They are Naser Muhammad Zakareya and his brothers Alaa, Ali and Maher under the pretext of taking part in the Intifada.

The Israeli occupation forces also incurred to the south of Gaza for hundreds of meters and arrested Riyadh Saadi Ayad. He is a member of the force number 17 which guards Arafat.

Two Palestinian were also wounded in Nablus in clashes in which the Israeli army opened fire at the Palestinians.

The Palestinian official in charge of planning and cooperation at the Palestinian Authority Nabil Amre said that Israel had given up in the secret talks between Ahmad Qrei', the chairman of the Palestinian legislative council and the Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres which took place several days ago gave up the 7-day calm period condition before starting the negotiations.

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