Three Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/15/2002

The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday continued the series of killing, breaking in and detention acts against the unarmed Palestinians.

The two Palestinian officers Khaled Abu Hairan, the chairman of the Palestinian intelligence in Halhoul town in the West Bank and his assistant Ahmad Samara were killed when they were fired on by the Israeli army which incurred into the town and stayed in it for several hours.

Two Palestinians from the town were also arrested, one of them is the personal guard for the chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat. Other 21 Palestinians were also arrested by the Israeli forces in the villages of Doyra, Ya'bad, Deir al-Ghosoun and Khurbet Mosleh and Safleit in the west bank.

Meantime, Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance Hamas said that one of its members Amjad al-Qotob ( 26 year old) was shot by the Israeli forces after he had thrown a mortar and opened fire at the entrance of an Israeli military base in the Jordan valley.

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