Four Israelis shot, including one army officer by Palestinian Intifada
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/10/2002

Four Israeli soldiers were killed including one army officer and other were wounded in an attack carried out by two Palestinians against a position for the Israeli forces to the east of Rafah to the south of Gaza on Wednesday at dawn.

Sources said that the executors of the operation were Muhammad Abu Jamous ( 23 year old) and Imad Abu Rizq ( 25 year old), they are from Rafah and were killed during the operation which the Islamic resistance movement ( Hamas), Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group claimed responsibility for. In a speech he delivered during he conference of " Muslim intellectuals" held in Beirut on Wednesday the chairman of the political bureau of the Hamas movement Khaled Mashaal mentioned the names of the two Palestinians who executed the operation, stressing Hamas's responsibility for the operation.

Meantime the Palestinian Authority condemned the attack and decided to form an investigation committee in this regard.

Meantime, the Israeli forces broke into two positions for the Palestinian naval police in al-Mawasi district to the south of Gaza and expelled its members, while the Israeli tanks opened its tanks fire at Palestinian positions near Rafah airport. The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon escalated his threats against the Palestinians to break into the Palestinian areas.

To this effect, Sharon sent a message to the American administration in which he asked for a direct American interference at the Palestinian Authority in order to arrest Fouad al-Shweiki who is accused by Israel in the question of the weapons ship, Israel claimed to have seized in the Red Sea while on its way to the Palestinian Authority.

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