Two suicide operations by Palestinians in retaliation to Israeli attacks
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/6/2002

In retaliation to the continued Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians, the Palestinian resistance men on Tuesday carried out two suicide operations resulted in killing or wounding tens of Israeli settlers.

A Palestinian resistance man carried out a "suicide " attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday at dawn resulted in killing three settlers and wounding 40, three of them in critical conditions.

News reports said that the bomber who moved from Jabalia camp in Gaza carrying a gun and two bombs was able to penetrate all Israeli check points and military measures and arrived in the heart of Tel Aviv and opened fire in a restaurants at a main cross-road before he was shot by the Israeli forces which cordoned the area.

The Israeli radio said that Israeli ministers and high ranking army officers were in the restaurants when the bombing took place.

Meantime, Abdul Karim Issa Khalil Tahaeyneh ( 21 year old) detonated an explosive in a passengers coach carrying settlers in al-Afola settlement in the territories of 1948 and this resulted in killing one settler and wounding other 17.

The al-Aqsa martyrs group of the "Fatah" movement claimed responsibility for Tel Aviv operation, noting that this operation which was carried out by Ibrahim Muhammad Hassouna came as a retaliation to the "massacres" committed recently by the Israeli forces against women and children in Ramullah and Jenin, while al-Quds groups of the Hamas movement claimed responsibility for al-Afola operation..

Meanwhile, the Israeli army on Tuesday carried out a, land, sea and air aggressions against Gaza.

News agencies quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the Israeli Apache and F-16 planes, the Israeli gun-ships and tanks bombarded the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority and the refugee camp in Khan Younis, targeting most villages and cities in Gaza. One of the missiles fell in a courtyard of a secondary school in Khan Younis and another missile in the garden of one house.

One Palestinian security member was hit by the Israeli bullet which incurred by tanks and bulldozers for more than two kilometers in the Palestinian territories to the East of Jabalia, while other 15 Palestinians were wounded because of a strong explosion took place in a building under construction in al-Shatee ( coast) for the Palestinian refugees to the north of Gaza.

In the West Bank, three Palestinians were killed when their was hit by an Israeli shelling while bombarding the city of Ramullah.

Palestinian security sources said that among the three killed are Muhannad Abu Halawah, one of the aides of the secretary of the Fatah movement Marwan al-Barghouthi in the West Bank and the two other martyrs Omar al-Safi and Fawzi Murad, they are two members of the Fatah movement. A fourth Palestinian was killed in another attack in Ramullah on Tuesday night. The Palestinian policeman Muhammad Atta Aouneh ( 32 year old) was killed and other two were wounded upon their confrontation of the Israeli tanks which incurred in Doura town near Hebron and burnt several cars and arrested three Palestinians while the Israeli Apache planes fired its missiles at Palestinian security headquarters in Nablus and Ramullah.

The Israeli forces broke into al-Khuder town near Jenin and this resulted in wounding one Palestinian while Palestinian resistance men opened fire at an Israeli car and this resulted in wounding one Israeli settler to the south of Ramullah.

Moreover, ten Palestinian students and their teacher were wounded when an explosive went off in their school in Sour Baher village near Jerusalem, while other schools were closed after finding out that there are several explosives inside the Palestinian schools many of them were dismantled.

To this effect, the Israeli radio said that a group of Israeli settlers named itself "the Revenge Takers" admitted of implanting and detonating several explosives in Arab schools in Jerusalem and Sour Baher village near the city.

On the other hand, the Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested four Palestinians near al-Tibeh village in the territories of 1948 under the charges of being members in a " Palestinian cell" which was preparing to carry out an operation against israeli targets. The Israeli forces also arrested one Arab citizen from Beit al-Roush village in Hebron and other citizens in Nablus area under charges of resisting the occupation.

Meantime, some 10,000 Palestinians in Ramullah took part in the funeral of 6 Palestinians, assassinated by the Israeli forces in on Monday. The mourners vowed to revenge the "martyrs."

The mini Israeli government on Tuesday gave instructions to all sorts of weapons stating to abrogate all restrictions to carrying out operations against the Palestinians.

In a telephone call conversation with the US secretary of state Colin Powell, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon stressed his determination to continue the military attacks against the Palestinians until the Intifada is eliminated.

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