Three Palestinians killed in confrontations with the Israeli forces
Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/5/2003

One Palestinian was killed in Toulkarem camp to the north of the West Bank and four others, in critical health conditions, were wounded as the Israeli forces opened fire at a group of citizens in the camp.

Bassel Abbas ( 25 year old ) was shot dead after he threw stones at Israeli tanks, while the camp had witnessed violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces.

Another Palestinian was killed by an Israeli bullet fired at his chest after a force from the Israeli special forces broke into an Internet center in Jenin city. After that, armed confrontations erupted in which two Israeli soldiers were wounded.

Palestinian security and medical sources said that Hisham Omar ( 16 year old), a member in the Islamic Jihad movement was not armed and was killed while trying to flee when a special Israeli unit of the Israeli army came to arrest him.

Other 6 Palestinians were wounded during fire exchange and the Israeli soldiers arrested two of them. During this operation the Palestinian Eyad Jaradat, the local official in the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, was arrested.

On the other hand, a Palestinian youths ( 14 year old) was hit by the bullets of a Jewish settler to the north of the West Bank after his car was stoned. Palestinian witnesses said the incident took place in al-Esaweyah village near Nablus. The teenager was wounded in his stomach.

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