One Palestinian killed, tens wounded on Sunday's confrontations
The Israeli forces on Sunday escalated their measures against the Palestinian people on the wake of the Israeli elections which will start tomorrow ( Tuesday).
Meantime the Palestinians stressed their determination to have the Israeli election day as an " day of anger." One Palestinian was killed and tens others wounded in the confrontations took place in the West Bank and Gaza especially in the areas of Hebron, Beit Eil and near Natsareim settlement and al-Mintar crossing amid a tightened military siege and intensive presence of the Israeli tanks in the surrounding of the Palestinian areas.
The Israeli forces demolished 6 Palestinians houses and an iron- steel workshop, two fuel stations and a water- well at al-Mintar crossing when the Israeli bulldozers destroyed an area of the land adjoining the houses of 100 dunnums and uprooted plants and the crops after expelling the people of the area.
News reports said that 64 Palestinians most of them are children were expelled from their houses after demolishing the houses.
In Bethlehem Israeli settlers on Sunday occupied Tallet al-Daher in al-Khuder village and prevented its palestinian citizens to have access to it with the aim to establish a new Israeli settlement sport.
In the context of the election campaign carried out by the two Israeli candidates Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon to win more votes, Barak has called for finding out a way to pullout the Israeli army from most of the territories of the West bank and to separate the Palestinians together with laying a clear borders, He added that without drawing such a border the security of the Israelis can not be ensured.
For his part Sharon stressed his extremist stances towards the establishment of the Palestinian state and his rejection of the peace process basics which states the need of Israel's withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands in order to establish peace in the region. He stressed he will seek to keep the Golan and the Jordan valley under the Israeli occupation, and that no one Israeli settler will be moved from his place and the Palestinian refugees will not be permitted to return back to their homes.
Meantime, in its recent meeting held on Sunday, the Israeli government decided to intensify its military presence in the surrounding and inside villages and cities of the Palestinian territories of 1948.