One occupation vehicle is destroyed, Two Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/26/2004

News reports in Palestine said that one explosive went off near an Israeli military vehicle while running near al-Qarrara town on the Palestinian side of Kisovim crossing to the north of Gaza. The report indicated that no casualties were reported in the lines of the soldiers. No casualties were reported among the soldiers.

In another attack, two Israeli soldiers were injured by bullets of Palestinian gunmen in the downtown of the sector. Israeli army sources admitted the fall of one missile shelling at a military headquarters in Kfar Daroum settlement in the sector.

In the West Bank the occupation forces imposed curfew on the area surrounding al-Haram al-Ibraheimi in Hebron after one Israeli settler was slightly wounded after Palestinian youth threw an explosive at a group of armed settlers, while the occupation forces were carrying out mopping up operations.

This, however, coincided with the occupation forces detention of scores of Palestinians in Doura city in Hebron and al-Khuder village in Bethlehem and al-Ezareyah town to the east of occupied Jerusalem and in Jenin.

While the Israeli occupation forces announced the end of its military operations in Rafah to the south of Gaza, known as " Rainbow " following a one week aggression, the Israeli defense minister Shaoul Mofaz announced that the military operations of the occupation forces will continue to be open in the area as long as what he called terrorists continue their threats to the Israelis.

Meantime, the representative of the European Union for foreign affairs, Javier Solana, expressed the EU readiness to send a fact finding commission to Gaza. Solana linked that to notify the EU about the withdrawal operation conditions from the sector and also the realization of full Israeli withdrawal in a way guarantees the end of occupation ultimately.

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  Demonstrations deploring destruction of Rafah, occupation threatens   (5/22/2004)
  Israeli occupation forces are redeployed in Rafah   (5/21/2004)
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