Israeli forces assassinate five Palestinian youths, cut their bodies
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/23/2002

Israeli forces broke once again into the city of Nablus and carried out a new massacre resulted in murdering five Palestinians. The Palestinians hurried to defend their city and the clashes expanded to include the cities of Ramullah and Toulkarem and the surrounding villages.

Meantime, a suicide attack took place in Jerusalem, resulted in wounding 30 Israelis and 4 Israeli soldiers were wounded on Tuesday's clashes with the Palestinians.

The Israeli forces broke into Nablus and opened fire at four Palestinian youths while they were sleeping in their flat, cut their bodies and blew off the flat.

The chairman of Nablus municipality Muhammad al-Alloul said that the men, who were members in the Hamas movement were assassinated.

Hamas vowed to revenge for those " martyrs" and stressed in a statement that this massacre "committed by the Zionist gangs will not go unpunished." News reports said that tens of Israeli tanks and bulldozers took part in the breaking in operations and then a campaign of arrest started resulted in arresting 9 Palestinians in the western quarters of the city. These operations were coincided with opening fire and then strong clashes took place during which four israeli soldiers were wounded.

The Palestinian youth Abdul Naser Sawaqtah was assassinated and other ten were wounded.

Meantime several Palestinian towns and villages surrounding the cities of Ramullah and Toulkarem were exposed to intensive Israeli bombardment while special Israeli forces were launching a vast campaign of arrest in the villages and the surrounding of the city of Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Toulkarem and number of Palestinian detainees in this area increased 30.

The Palestinian youth retaliated by attacking the Israeli patrols and positions in the surrounding of Bsaghout and Beit Eil settlements.

In Jerusalem, 30 Palestinians were wounded, five in a critical health condition in a suicide operation carried out by a Palestinian in the downtown of the occupied city.

No detailed information were reported about the operation but "al-Aqsa groups" said that the executor of the operation is Saeed Ramadan from Nablus.

Israel, immediately held the Palestinian Authority responsible for the operation and advisor for Ariel Sharon, Douri Gold stressed that Israel will retaliate, appropriately.

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