Five Palestinians killed in Friday's confrontations with Israeli forces
In its 30th day of al-Aqsa Intifada, five Palestinians were killed and tens wounded by Israelis during confrontations took place in various Palestinian areas.
Since Friday's early morning, demonstrations started in response to the announcement made by the Palestinian groups for a "people's anger revolution" against the Israeli occupation.
In Gaza the funeral of Palestinian Nabil al-Areir who carried out a suicide operation near " Kafer Daroum" on Thursday, slogans were chanted urging Jihad and called on all to join the uprising as the only way to restore back the usurped rights.
Cities and villages of the Gaza strip and the West Bank witnessed strong confrontations between the Palestinian stone- throwers and the Israeli forces while Jerusalem suffered the toughest siege that forced people to perform their Friday's prayers at the streets of the city because the Israeli forces besieged the city from every side.
News reports said that the cities of Ramullah, Toulkaram, Nablus, Halhoul, al-Khalil, Bethlehem, and Qalqelya have been converted to battlefields.
The Palestinian Ahmad Muhammad Qasem was killed at the entrance of Toulkarem, Bashir Saleh Salawit was killed in Qalqilya, another one in Gaza, Youssef Salem in Ramullah and another one was killed near al-Khalil while tens were wounded by the Israeli fires and poisonous shelling.
Eye-witnesses said that the Palestinian citizens carried out direct attacks against Israeli on foot patrols and positions and against settlements close to the cities of the West Bank and Gaza and that the Israeli forces intensively bombarded the Palestinian areas to disperse the demonstrators and the Israeli forces arrested tens of Palestinians after being strongly beaten.
The Israeli army chief of staff Shaoul Mofaz said that this army will carry out already prepared operations against the Palestinians. He admitted that his soldiers open their guns fire precisely on the Palestinian youths. He said " we have so far killed 160 Palestinians."