Israeli tanks invade Rafah, six Palestinians killed including one infant
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/2/2002

The Israeli forces on Wednesday continued their aggressions against the Palestinians. As a result six Palestinians were killed and other 14 wounded by the Israeli tanks bullets at the Palestinian houses in Rafah.

Eye- witnesses said the Israeli tanks incurred for more 200 meters into Blok area to the south of Rafah and opened its artillery fire at the houses while no confrontation were there.

In Bethlehem, one Palestinian child Abdullah Khaled Ismael ( 11 year old) was killed and his tow brothers wounded ( also two children) in an explosion that took place at the headquarters of the Palestinian police which was evacuated by the Israeli army two days earlier.

Palestinian sources said that the three children entered to play in the empty headquarters and the explosion took place. In Khan Younis the Israeli forces opened its heavy machine gun fire at the position of the Palestinian security forces.

A Palestinian security source said that six Israeli military cars and five tanks left the surrounding of Ghoushe Katieve settlement towards the position and opened fire intensively and the Israeli occupation forces carried out a vast mopping up campaign and arrested five palestinians while passing by a car near the settlement.

Meantime, the Israeli tanks broke into Qalqilya city in the West Bank and opened fire at several houses and re-occupied the city, according to Palestinian security sources.

The Israeli forces also broke into Azzoun village to the east of Qalqilya and arrested two Palestinian youth after inspecting their houses and terrifying its inhabitants.

In Hazma village in Ramullah, the Israeli forces arrested several Palestinian youth and imposed a tightened siege on the village, imposed curfew and cut telephone, electricity and waters from the houses and arrested several youths in al-Fawar village in Hebron area and took all the detainees to an unknown destination.

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