Israel bombards Palestinian towns and villages
The Israeli forces on Tuesday continued its bombardment of Palestinians villages and towns.
News reports said the Israeli tanks which besieged the West Bank and Gaza opened their fires on the Palestinian citizens in the surrounding of Rekaleim and Dogit settlements and the fires targeted the surrounding of Khan Younis and the adjoining villages.
The news reports indicated that the Israeli occupation forces will start the implementation of a plan drawn by al-Quds municipality to demolish houses and buildings in the eastern part of the city and expelling Arab families from it.
In this context, thousands of armed settlers, at a direct protection of the Israeli army continued their attacks in the Arab cities and villages. They uprooted trees and plantations and demolished set fire in several houses and private plantations in several villages in Gaza, in particular.
The chairman of al-Mawasal municipality near Khan Younis Hadi al-Najjar said that more than 500 armed Israeli settlers arrived in their cars to the said village and immediately opened fore of their guns on the houses at the protection of Israeli forces.
Al- Najjar said the settlers set fire in seven houses in the town and opened fire against the sheep, destroyed, farms and broke engines of agricultural machinery and several houses and trade centers close to the coast.
Other settlers broke into al-Teira village in the territories of 1948 and occupied the bank of the village, stole money inside it and burnt cars parked nearby the Bank.
Meantime, the meeting which was held in Jerusalem on Tuesday between Israeli and Palestinian officials failed to reach results.
The chief palestinian negotiator Saeb Oreikat said that the Israeli team did not propose any map or answers to the palestinian inquiries pertaining to the proposals of the American President over crystallizing an agreement on the final status.
Sources at the divan of the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said there are no possibilities of reaching an agreement with the Palestinians before the next Israeli elections.
Meanwhile, the body of the Palestinian Rafiq Qasem was found in Jenin area after he was kidnapped two days earlier because he was accused of being a spy for Israel. Also the body of the Palestinian Murshid Murshid was found. He is from Ijjeh village, Nablus. He was killed because he is accused of being a collaborator with Israel.
The secretary of the Fatah movement Marwan al-Barghoutji spoke of the need of arresting spies and hirelings who work for Israel, noting that " executing two of them ( in remarks to two Palestinians executed three days before over collaboration with Israel) is not enough because they constitute a danger to the struggle of the Palestinian people.
For its part, the Hamas movement stressed it will revenge those who deal with the occupation. It noted in a statement that those " traitors of the Palestinian people will be hardly punished." Hamas also urged the Palestinian authority to stop any security coordination with Israel.