Two Palestinians killed in Bethlehem, Israel starts demolishing houses in Hebron
Palestine-Israel, Military, 12/14/2002

The Palestinian Abdullah Shawka ( 32 year old) from the Islamic Jihad movement, and Abed Abu Mousa were killed by Israeli bullets in Bethlehem yesterday morning, and a Palestinian was strongly wounded at Salah Eddine Gate near the Egyptian borders, while the Israeli forces arrested more than 13 citizens of various parts of the West Bank especially from Qalqilya, Nablus and Qalandia.

The Palestinian authorities yesterday received the bodied of six Palestinians including five from one family the Israeli forces had killed in Gaza.

A Palestinian medical source stressed that: five of the assassinated Palestinians are from al-Astal family from Khan Younis and were targeted by a unit of the Israeli army on Wednesday evening near al-Mintar crossing under the pretext that they had approached the security fence which surrounds an area banned to be entered in.

Meantime, the Israeli forces started demolishing operations of Palestinian houses in Hebron in order to link the two Israeli settlements of Kreyat Arbaa with the al-Aqsa mosque. News reports said that the demolishing process, by tanks targeted 15 houses.

Moreover, four Palestinians were wounded during the confrontation of people of Nour Shams camp in Toulkarem with the Israeli armored vehicles which broke into the camp backed by Apache planes.

News reports said the Israeli forces started the breaking in inspections of several Palestinian houses under the allegations of searching for Palestinian resistance men.

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