Five Israelis wounded in Palestinian operation; continued aggression against Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Military, 10/16/2002

Five Israelis were wounded when an explosion took place in an Israeli bus at an Israeli settlement near Beisan in Israel. The Israeli police forces carried out a large - scale inspection campaign in the area.

The Israeli forces claimed that on Tuesday it dismantled two explosives of 8 Kg weight near Natsareim settlement in the area.

The Israeli forces on Tuesday continued breaking in and storming operations and arrested more Palestinians. The Israeli forces incurred in Gaza and destroyed a factory and one house in Jenin area and arrested 8 Palestinians including al-Quds Mufti Sheikh Ikrama Sabri.

An Israeli force also broke into Um al-Fahem town in the territories of 1948 and closed a local radio station.

Israel has already reoccupied seven out of the 8 Palestinian cities that fall under the Palestinian self rule in the West Bank in June in the framework of its campaign to halt the Palestinian Intifada.

On Tuesday the Israeli forces incurred for hundreds of meters in the Palestinian territories to the south of Gaza near Natsareim settlement and leveled agricultural lands in the area and fired several shells at a residential quarters in the area.

A Palestinian security source said that the Israeli tanks fired 6 artillery shells and opened its machine guns fire at Sheikh Ajleen area and this resulted in material damages in a five - floor building.

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