Israeli forces broke into al-Am'ari camp, destroy houses, warns against resistance
Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/4/2003

The Israeli forces yesterday at dawn broke into al-Am'ari camp in Ramullah and cordoned the house of the Palestinian "martyr" Wafa' Idris, the first Palestinian woman in the Palestinian Intifada in order to destroy the house.

Eye-witnesses said that an Israeli military unit composed of 20 vehicles incurred into the camp and asked Idris family to leave the house in order to blow it up.

Wafaa Idris carried out a resistance operation in the downtown of Jerusalem in 2002 -- the first by a Palestinian woman to carry out a " suicide operation" against the Israeli forces.

During its invasion, the Israeli forces also detonated the house of an official in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a village near Hebron. Palestinian sources said that a unit representing the Israeli forces bombed the house of Mahmoud Ismael Darwish who was arrested six months earlier.

Since August, 2002, Israel demolished 110 houses in the West Bank and Gaza despite the denunciation of human rights organizations of this policy.

While the Israeli forces arrested six citizens from various parts in the West Bank, these forces circulated during their invasion of the border areas and the camps of al-Breij, al-Maghazi and al-Nuseirat in Gaza paper slips of blue colors warning citizens from grave consequences of cooperating with resistance.

For their part, Palestinian resistance fighters fired one mortar at an Israeli settlement in Gaza.

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