Israelis killed in Kfar Saba operation; Israel continues incursion operations
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/25/2003

One Israeli was killed and other 20 were wounded with many of them in critical health conditions in the Palestinian operation carried out yesterday by a Palestinian resistance man in a train station in Kfar Saba to the north of Tel Aviv.

The Israeli occupation authorities which admitted the operation announced a state of alert in the lines of the Israeli forces and police in precaution of new operations against Israeli targets and these forces installed check points at the main and branch roads and blocked the entrances of the main cities especially in Nathania and started a vast mopping up and inspection operations in the area of the operation.

Al-Aqsa martyrs groups of the Palestinian national resistance, Fatah, claimed responsibility for the operation. Its spokesman said that the operation which was carried out by martyr Ahmad Khaled al-Khatib ( 18) year old, was an answer to the Israeli crimes and its incursions into the Palestinian towns and camps and come and as an assertion to continue resistance until occupation is eliminated.

Yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and carried out inspection operations in several Palestinian cities and towns that resulted in killing two Palestinians in Ramullah by Israeli soldiers and wounding many others in Rafah and the detention of 15 Palestinians in various areas in the West Bank and Gaza.

Palestinian officials said that violent confrontations took place in Ramullah after the two Palestinians were murdered and the Palestinian Intifada youths threw at Israeli forces explosives and stones and the Palestinians were fired on with live bullets.

Two Palestinians were strongly wounded in an incursion by the Israeli tanks and vehicles in Tel Sultan area in Rafah, Gaza.

Palestinian security sources said that the Palestinian Ahmad Alyan ( 25 year old) was wounded and another was also wounded strongly when the Israeli tanks opened fire at the houses of Palestinians in that area.

The sources added that the Israeli forces also incurred into Sofa crossing to the east of Rafah and carried out leveling operations of the agricultural lands and demolished several Palestinian houses.

The Israeli forces arrested 8 Palestinians in Bethlehem and five at Askar camp near Nablus, and two in Ramullah area while the military siege continues for all openings of the West Bank and Gaza.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said that the Kfar Saba operation is considered part of the legitimate Palestinian resistance.

One of the Hamas leaders Abdul Aziz al-Ranteisi said that this operation comes in the framework of continued resistance against the Israeli occupation and was carried out inside the Palestinian territories which was occupied in 1948.

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