Israeli forces incurred into Toulkarem, continue detention campaigns
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/17/2002

The Israeli aggression against the Palestinians continued on Tuesday. The Israeli forces continued storming into the Palestinian cities and towns and assassinated national cadres, while the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon renewed his rejection to the UN resolutions relating to the Arab- Israeli conflict.

In Toulkarem, scores of Israeli tanks escorted by Apache planes on Tuesday at dawn broke into the city which they besieged after it had withdrawn from its downtown symbolically and carried out a breaking in operation from one house to another to arrest Palestinians wanted by the Israeli occupation army and this resulted in at least wounding 10 Palestinians while the Israeli soldiers arrested nine.

Near Nablus, the Israeli forces escorted by helicopters broke into Askar camp and carried out a large scale inspection campaign during which the Palestinian child Farah Abu Eaysha ( 12 year old) was shot when the Israeli forces opened fire at an ambulance carrying him to the hospital, while the Israeli forces imposed curfew on five Palestinian towns near occupied Jerusalem, claiming it has information that "suicide operations" will be carried out on the occasion of the usurpation of Palestine in 1948 and arrested Surri Nuseibah and Naser Yatemah ( one of the Hamas leaders ).

In Bethlehem, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinians held inside the Nativity church after they got out of the church because of their needs to medical aids, while the psychological war continued against the persons besieged in the church as it was exposed to sound noise and terrifying warnings to the besieged persons calling on them to surrender.

An Israeli force arrested seven Palestinians in Bethlehem including three members of the Palestinian security officers and the director of Arafat's office after cordoning them in a building in al-Doha quarters, while another Israeli forces cordoned al-Ezareyah quarters and carried out in it a large detention campaign targeted member of the higher committee for the Fatah movement Shukri Rudeidah and the Israeli forces controlled the hall of Star hotel in Bethlehem to overlook from it on the Nativity Church.

In Nablus, the Israeli forces arrested 20 Palestinians and the AP correspondent Muhammad al- Daraghema ( 39 year old). The Israeli forces also arrested Jamal al-Tawil from from the Hamas movement, Ashraf Abu Wardeh and two other members of the People's Front For the Liberation of Palestine in Jenin, while one Palestinian was killed by the Israeli invading forces in Gaza.

In Jerusalem, two Palestinian Intifada youths threw two explosives at Israeli soldiers bus while the Israeli positions in Ghadid, Natsareim, Rafeh and Ghoushe Katieve were exposed to fire and mortars Eye witnesses said that intensive fire erupted on Tuesday at the Nativity Church where the Israeli soldiers besiege Palestinian resistance men who are held in the church since two weeks.

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