Five Palestinians murdered by Israeli Apache planes
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 2/5/2002

Five Palestinians were killed on Monday when their car, on the road from Rafah to Khan Younis was hit by the missiles of the Israeli Apache planes. The Israeli tanks and planes also bombarded a melting factory at Jabalia camp and destroyed it together with other adjoining houses.

News reports said the five killed Palestinians are members of the Democratic Front For the Liberation of Palestine and among them are Majid Mu'ammar; Ayman al-Baghdadi and Ibrahim Jarbou'.

The reports said that the Israeli Apache planes fired tens of missiles at various areas in Gaza and inflicted damages and hits among citizens, while an Israeli military force broke into Bethlehem area.

The Palestinians, on the other hand, attacked by bombs and explosives positions for the Israeli army in Toulkarem, Qalqilya and al-Khalil and other attacked another Israeli position in Rafah and the Israeli patrols in Jenin.

The Israeli forces, on the other hand, demolished a Palestinian house in al-Aeisaweyah to the east of Jerusalem and launched a vast campaign of arrest among the Palestinian youths and the Palestinians retaliated by opening fire at Gheilo settlement to the south of Jerusalem.

Meantime, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon refused a proposal given by the Palestinian Authority on that Israel abstain from its oppressive practices against the Palestinians for ten days in order to enable the Palestinian Authority security to take measures that can limit the operations against Israel.

The Israeli radio indicated that Sharon has also refused a similar proposal made by Egypt, while the Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres said that Arafat will not be taken into account unless he will be able to impose his control on the Palestinian organizations.

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