More Palestinians killed in Israeli incursions in Rafah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus
Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/26/2002

Palestinian youth Samer Muhammad Abdul Jawad ( 21 year old) was shot and other three killed by the Israeli army bullets during breaking in operation of Rafah district in Southern Gaza, even the ambulance which transported the wounded to the hospital was exposed to the fire of the Israeli army.

Meantime, Palestinian security sources said that more than 15 tanks escorted by military vehicles incurred for hundreds meters in al-Salaam district and al-Brazil camp for the Palestinian refugees in Rafah amid intensive fire opened by the Israeli heavy machine guns at the houses of the Palestinians.

The Israeli bulldozers demolished houses. The Palestinian resistance men threw mortars at a position for the Israeli army near "David settlement," in retaliation to the Israeli aggressions.

In al-Nseirat camp in Gaza, the Palestinian citizen Khaled Abu Erieban ( 37 year old) was killed and other two wounded when a shell blew off in one of the houses in the camp while the Palestinian teenager Mahmoud Abu Yassin ( 15 year old) died of his wounds caused by an Israeli attack.

In the West Bank, the Israeli tanks and bulldozers incurred into the Palestinian territories to the east of Bethlehem and the Israeli soldiers blocked all access to the adjoining Palestinian towns. Three Palestinians were strongly wounded by the fire of the Israeli patrol at Seylat al-Daher village in Nablus, where a corpse of a Palestinian youth shot to death was found near the "Nave Douqan" settlement.

Several quarters in Hebron were also exposed to the Israeli bombardment from "Beit Romam" settlement and the Palestinian Intifada youths retaliated to the random Israeli bombardment by throwing several bombs into the settlement and this resulted in wounding one Israeli soldier and a large fire.

Meantime, a high ranking Israeli official threatened that the Israeli army will carry out intensive threats against the Palestinian cities and villages and the Palestinian camps if the current American mediation in the region fails. The Israeli official added that there is an increasing support inside the government of Ariel Sharon and the Israeli army for a comprehensive military confrontation with the Palestinians, noting that such large attacks will not be compared (they will be much bigger) to previous military operations carried out by Israel so far.

He said that the few coming days might be decisive in case the negotiations will fail.

Meantime, the US White House has called on Sharon to "think seriously" about permitting Arafat to attend the Arab summit in Beirut.

On the other hand, a committee belonging to the Israeli ministry of the interior instructed to expand the municipality borders of Jerusalem and to annex several adjoining Israeli settlements. The expanded area covers the settlements of Tsou Hdasa, Moutsa and Mafseirat Sahyoun.

Previous Stories:
  Clashes in West Bank and Gaza result in killing 7 Palestinians, tens wounded   (3/25/2002)
  One Palestinian blows off himself at a check-point near Jenin   (3/23/2002)
  Some 55 Israelis killed, wounded in a Palestinian operation in Jerusalem   (3/22/2002)

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