Four Palestinian children wounded, 21 houses and shops were demolished by Israel
Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/22/2003

The Palestinian Mahmoud Amer ( 24 year old) was shot at Jenin camp and other 4 Palestinians children were wounded by the bullets of the Israeli soldiers who broke into Toulkarem and Nour Shams camps and arrested scores of Palestinians in the West Bank in the towns of Tubas, Balaa and Qalqilya on the charges of resistance, including three from the Islamic Jihad. They are Ibrahim Sawafteh; Rafaat Muflih and Omar Arabeh.

The Israeli forces demolished 20 trade centers in Nazlet Issa village and one house in Doura town and warned 30 shops to the north of Toulkarem of demolishing them and tightened curfew in Ramullah which undergoes strong military measures since several days.

Meantime, the Palestinian authority has called on the USA and the European Union, in urgent messages to interfere in order to halt the Israeli aggressions and the Israeli military escalation.

The Palestinian local rule official at the Palestinian authority Saeb Oreikat said that these messages explain the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians. Aggressions which included continued breaking of the Israeli tanks of the Palestinian cities and villages as well as camps in the West Bank and Gaza and demolishing houses as well as building walls, confiscating thousands of agricultural lands and tightening the siege and closing universities and institutes.

The Palestinian urgent messages were handed over to the US assistant for the secretary of state William Burns, the EU ME special envoy Moratinos, the special Russian envoy Andre Vidovin, the UN special envoy terry Rod Larsen and to ambassadors and representatives of the countries of the European Union and the countries of Asia, Africa, and southern American, Canada and Australia.

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