Five Palestinians and two Israeli settlers killed
Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/13/2005

Two resistance men from Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, carried out a military operation against an Israeli settlements and military position in Rafah to the south of Gaza resulted in killing and wounding two Israelis.

While the Israeli forces admitted the killing of one settler and injuring three of its soldiers in the attack, a statement by al-Quds group ( Saraya) announced the killing of four Israeli military men including one senior army officer and wounding many others during a breaking in operation of Morag settlement yesterday morning and blowing up of one explosive in their military vehicle.

The attack resulted in the killing of its executors Shaker Jouda ( 24 year old) and Ala' Shaker ( 23 year old), with one of them able to sneak to the military position and control it for while, and hoist the Palestinian flag over it, before he was killed by the bullets of the Israeli forces.

Sources in the Islamic Jihad movement said that the operation, the first of its kind after Mahmoud Abbas won the Presidential elections, was video taped and a copy of it will be circulated on the media.

Five Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion by the Palestinians of a tunnel in the same area on December 21, 2004.

The attacks came while the occupation forces announced its detention of four Palestinians in Gaza, one of them described as wanted by it and he is from the Islamic resistance movement ( Hamas).

The detention came in the course of breaking into Sheikh Ajleen area to the west of Gaza and the operation was made under an air cover before the occupation forces were re-deployed outside the area. The incursion came in coincidence with the Israeli planes firing of two missiles on a target whose nature was not disclosed to the south of the city. No news were reported on casualties.

In the west bank, three Palestinians were killed, two of them were members in the Hamas movement by the bullets of the Israeli forces after one Israeli unit broke Farawa town to the north of Ramullah and detonated one of the houses before breaking into it. The occupation forces are imposing curfew on the town and alleged it found a warehouse for weapons and ammunition in the targeted building.

In Hebron, the occupation forces are imposing tightened siege on the two towns of Izna and Tarqomia to the west of the governorate where 12 Palestinians were arrested. N.

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