Abbas criticize Kfar Daroum operation, Israel considers it violation of truce
Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/4/2003

The Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas considered the launching of missiles at an Israeli settlement in Gaza and the attack which resulted in killing a foreign workers on Monday in the West Bank, as constituting an act of destruction.

Abbas expressed his regret to journalists during an inspection visit in Beut Hanoun over such incidents to take place, and called for preventing such acts.

Abbas also criticized the Israeli occupation forces for their deliberate destruction of the Palestinian economy in Beit Hanoun before its withdrawal from there last Sunday, stressing that the Palestinian people are determined to proceed into the march of militant struggle to have an independent state with Jerusalem as a capital by eliminating settlement and return back to June, 4, 1967 border lines.

For his part, the secretary general of the presidium at the Palestinian authority al-Tayeb Abdul Rahim has stressed that there are reciprocated violations by the Israelis and the Palestinians of the agreement finalized between the two sides, calling on the Israeli government to stop assassinations.

Abdul Rahim said in press statements that the Israeli side violates the truce through continued violation of the policy of assassinations, noting that there are certain Palestinians who want the truce to be violated. He indicated that the Palestinian and Israeli sides are dealing with these matters through bilateral meetings.

Yesterday morning, an Israeli military spokesman said that Israel officially complained against firing shells at Kfar Daroum. This is, however, the first complaint since the Palestinian resistance groups announced truce with Israel, earlier this week. He said that the Palestinians fired on Wednesday evening three shells at the settlement and this resulted in that three individuals to be slightly wounded.

Meantime, news reports in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation forces closed once again the main road of Salah Eddine which links the north of Gaza to its south and claimed that the closure will be for several hours.

One member of the al-Aqsa martyrs Palestinian groups was killed on Wednesday evening in a fire exchange with the Israeli soldiers in the city of Qalqilya to the north of the West Bank.

News reports said that Muhammad al-Shawa ( 31 year old) was murdered after an Israeli force besieged a house where he was hiding in the city. One of his friends was wounded and detained in the same operation which was executed by the Israeli soldiers who entered the city escorted by armored vehicles.

Meantime, the commander of the Palestinian national security forces Lt. Maj. Ismael Jabar announced earlier that the Israeli forces will release 21 Palestinian political detainees including the secretary general of the People's Front for Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Saadat.

However, Saadat expressed his wonder towards that, saying in a telephone call with the Qatari al-Jazira TV that he is held in the Palestinian authorities jails within the framework of security obligations by the Palestinian authority to the USA in order to end the siege on the headquarters of the Palestinian presidency in 2002. Saadat refused, together with other 4 detainees in Areiha prison to be a playcard of these negotiations. He refused the Palestinian truce and the Roadmap.

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