Israel continue incursions into Palestinian territories, AL: Israel violates international law, humanitarian values flagrantly
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/22/2003

Three Palestinians were wounded when the Israeli soldiers opened fire randomly at citizens in Jenin and arrested four of them under the pretext of resistance.

Meantime, the Israeli forces continued their incursion in Nablus and Balata camp after it had imposed curfew on them since yesterday at dawn and arrested several citizens in the camp under the pretext of resistance.

Meantime, the Israeli forces were reinforced in the cities, villages of the West Bank and around Gaza following the aggressions by Israel recently that resulted in killing 7 Palestinians and wounding scores of them including 16 children and destruction of several Palestinian houses.

The Israeli radio said that the state of alert will continue until the beginning of next week and that new forces were deployed in Jerusalem especially in the old section of the town and barriers were installed on the roads and the entrances of the city's quarters.

On Sunday, the Israeli forces arrested 780 Palestinians in Israel under the pretext of not having necessary licenses and brought 19 of them to the Israeli courts while others were turned back to the Palestinians areas.

On the other hand, the Arab League has strongly condemned the "state - run terrorism policy committed by Israel against the Palestinians of acts of killing, demolishing of houses and besiege in a flagrant violation to the rules of the international law and the UN norms and charters and humanitarian values."

In this respect, the AL spoke of the assassination of the Palestinian cameraman Nazih Darwaza by the Israeli forces in an attempt to prevent the world public opinion from knowing the heart of the matter of crimes committed in the occupied lands.

The AL has called on the international community to take crucial stand against Israel to force it to stop its "terrorist practices and abide by international resolutions" providing for total withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands until June 4, 1967 border lines in order to reach a just and comprehensive peace in the region.

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