New Israeli aggression in Tammon, Jenin, 11 Palestinians killed
Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/15/2003

Just hours after its massacre in Tammoun town which resulted in killing five Palestinians, a second Israeli aggression followed resulted in killing other 6 Palestinians in Jenin camp.

News reports said that five Palestinians from "al-Quds group" of the Islamic Jihad Movement and one member of al-Aqsa group of the Fatah movement were killed yesterday at dawn in the attack against Ein al-Helweh.

The correspondent of the Qatari al-Jazira TV said that the citizens of the camp woke up suddenly to the Israeli attack which was launched by six Apache planes while the Israeli tanks broke into the camp amid launching shells and intensive fires against the populated houses.

He added that special units in the Israeli forces escorted the tanks in attacking one house and the resistance clashed with the Israeli invading forces but were killed by the missiles of the Israeli Apache planes.

The Israeli forces also bombarded two houses of two members of the Islamic Jihad in Sidon town to the north of the West Bank after one Palestinian and one Israeli soldier were killed in armed clashes in the town, while the Israeli bulldozers demolished three Palestinian houses in al-Walja town near Bethlehem.

The Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian brothers during an incursion operation in Rafah.

A Palestinian security source said that the Israeli forces arrested the two brothers Abdul Karim and Odeh al-Hammoum while breaking into their house in al-Salam quarters.

The security source explained that a group of Israeli tanks escorted by a military bulldozers incurred into Rafah area and broke into several houses and leveled a vast area of land before it pulled out.

Eye- witnesses said that the Israeli occupation forces yesterday leveled scores of dunnums of agricultural lands in al-Qarrar town to the east of Khan Younis.

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