Two Palestinian operations near Jerusalem, Gaza, four soldiers killed
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 2/19/2002

One Israeli woman settler and two soldiers were killed and many other soldiers were wounded in a "suicide" operation in which the Palestinians attacked an Israeli armored vehicle in Gaza on Monday.

Israeli sources said that the Palestinians opened fire at the vehicle which was in its way to "Ghoushe Katieve" settlement while the Israeli TV said that a Palestinian opened fire at the vehicle and then detonated himself.

Palestinians at Khan Younis to the South of Gaza said that they say five explosions, at least, near the "Mourag" settlement.

Meantime, an explosion near "Ma'le Adomim" in Jerusalem resulted in killing one Israeli soldier and many others were wounded, two of them in critical health conditions.

Israeli sources said that another bomb was found in Ramat Shareet settlement in Jerusalem and was dismantled before it blows off and these sources admitted that intensive fire was opened at "Jeilo " settlement and that an Israeli coach was hit by fire bullets near the tunnel of the complex of Ghoushe Ateizoun settlements in Jerusalem.

One Israeli soldier was wounded after an explosive went off as he was trying to dismantle it in the surrounding of Nablus.

News reports said the Israeli forces arrested seven citizens in al-Azereyah town under the charges of implementing resistance operations and also arrested six from Ramullah and Jenin.

Meantime, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said that Israel is studying the expansion of its military operations against the Palestinians and eliminating the Palestinian organizations which back the Palestinian Intifada.

In a Likud party meeting at the israeli Knesset on Monday, the Israeli prime minister admitted that the Palestinian organizations could direct uneasy " strikes" to Israel, while the Israeli foreign minister Shemon Peres warned that the world is not convinced of what his government. He said It is not possible to expel three million Palestinians. SANA.

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