Palestinian killed by Israeli forces, three homes demolished
Palestine-Israel, Military, 2/27/2003

The Palestinian citizen Fatehi Jabara was killed in the city of Qalqilya by the bullets of the Israeli forces which continued yesterday operations of breaking in and incursion and arrested 8 Palestinians in various areas of the West Bank and Gaza.

One Palestinian was arrested in Shawadra village of Bethlehem district, three in Toulkarem, two in Jenin, and two in Yamoun.

For its part, the Israeli radio said the Israeli police unveiled it had arrested four Palestinians since several days from the people of Qalqilya under the pretext that they are part of a cell planning to carry out military operations against Israel.

Palestinian security source and witnesses said the Israeli army demolished three Palestinian houses in Rafah to the south of Gaza during the breaking in operation there.

The source said that four tanks escorted by a military bulldozers incurred to scores of meters into Zaarab quarters near the border strip with Egypt in Rafah and leveled three houses.

The source indicated that the fence of a fourth house was also demolished and seven dunnums of cultivated lands were leveled in the same area.

Meantime, a French delegation visited the Palestinian territories and denounced "Israel's crimes and oppressive practices" in these lands and called on the world to interfere promptly to avert these land unprecedented catastrophe.

The delegation expressed its denunciation for the Israeli inhuman practices against the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

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