Thirty Israeli tanks broke into Toulkarem, eulogy for two Palestinian children in Deir Abu Mashaal, PA accepts road map initially
Palestine-Israel, Military, 11/13/2002

Some 30 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles yesterday at dawn broke into Toulkarem camp and opened fire at populated houses, while another Israeli force broke into Abu Mashaal village in the West Bank and carried out a mopping up operation and gathered the citizens of the village in the public square while raining under the pretext of searching for resistance fighters.

The Israeli forces also detonated the house of the Palestinian Muhammad Nayfah, the chairman of the Fatah movement in the West Bank, and arrested 8 citizens after breaking into their houses under charges of resistance and also arrested two young men from Toulkarem and Ramullah.

Meantime, thousands of Palestinian held an eulogy yesterday for the two Palestinian children nafid Mashaal ( 2 year old) and Muhammad Abu al-Naja ( 8 year old) in Rafah amid calls to continue resistance.

Politically speaking, the chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat told journalists yesterday after his meeting with the Russian envoy Andre Vidovin in Ramullah that the Palestinians accepted the American initially "road map" plan for the creation of a Palestinan state, but they are discussing it currently with various sides to give their final decision regarding it.

In Cairo, the two delegations of the Hamas and Fatah movements resumed their meetings yesterday under the chairmanship of member of the political bureau of the Hamas movement Mousa Abu Marzouk and Zakaraya al-Agha member of the central committee of the Fatah movement.

MENA quoted well-informed sources as saying that the dialogue between Hamas and Fatah dealt during the two past days the current conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories and the developments of conditions in the region and their reflections on the Palestinian issue and means of protecting the Palestinian people and their just cause as well as means of strengthening the Palestinian national unity to withstand the Israeli aggressive schemes. The agency described the atmosphere of the dialogue as positive.

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