Seven Palestinians killed by Israel; a new Palestinian suicide: two killed 40 wounded
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2002

Seven Israelis were killed on Wednesday by the Israeli forces, four of them were killed in a tank shell fired at Balatah camp near Nablus.

Meantime, scores of Palestinians were arrested in new incursions for the Israeli forces in several towns and villages in the West Bank, while another Palestinian was killed at the northern entrance of Bethlehem.

The Israeli forces broke into Salfeit town and started immediately a large scale campaign of arrest targeted 15 Palestinians amid intensive fire exchanged by the two sides.

Meanwhile, two Israelis were killed and other 40 wounded many of them in critical health conditions when a Palestinian "bomber" detonated himself in an open Cafe in the commercial trade area of Rabishion Litision to the south of Tel Aviv.

An eye- witness said the persons inside the site of the explosion were in state of hysteria.

Al-Aqsa group of the Fatah movement claimed responsibility for the operation. This was expressed in a statement which read "We revenged the killing of Jihad Jibril in Beirut, and the assassination of four Palestinians in Nablus and other hundreds of martyrs in the occupied territories."

Previous Stories:
  Israeli forces break into Nablus, Bethlehem, Jenin   (5/22/2002)
  Tenet to meet Israeli, Palestinian officials on security issues   (5/22/2002)
  Two Israelis killed, 60 wounded in two Palestinian operations   (5/20/2002)
  Israeli forces kill four Palestinians, a seven year old child   (5/18/2002)
  Israeli forces incur in Ramullah, kills one Palestinian army officer   (5/17/2002)

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