One Palestinian killed, four wounded in an Israeli explosion
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/22/2002

A 27 year old Palestinian was killed when the Israeli forces detonated a four- floor building in Khan Younis camp and other four were wounded as a result of the intensive artillery bombardment against the camp al-Amal quarters and the Austrian quarters in Khan Younis before its invasion.

Palestinian sources said that more than 20 tanks and heavy armored vehicles incurred in the quarters of the camp and demolished and destroyed several houses.

Meantime, the Israeli tanks shells hit several houses and resulted in fires while an Israeli force broke into Balatah camp and carried out a mopping up operation and arrested five citizens, two from al-Khalil and one citizen from Einin village in Jenin and another in Askar camp under various charges.

Meanwhile, the Israeli settlers announced the foundation of two new settlements units to the north of the West Bank where the had moved mobile houses to al-Jalbou' area and started to install barbed wire around vast areas of lands.

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