Two Palestinians killed, 95 wounded by the Israeli bullets
Confrontations continued in the West Bank and Gaza with the Israeli forces and two Palestinians were killed and tens wounded by the Israeli forces.
Ehud Barak said in his capacity as a defense minister and Moshe Arenz threatened to escalate the attacks against the Palestinians.
The Palestinian youths Zeyad Abu Sawa ( 20 year old) was killed by the Israeli occupation forces. Another Palestinian youth was wounded in Bethlehem. The Palestinian youth Atif al-Nabulsi (35) was killed near Ramullah. He is from Jerusalem and the Israeli army refused to hand over his body.
News reports said that the Israeli forces opened fire on the aggregation for the Arab workers and the school students in al-Khudr village, Bethlehem and Ramullah resulted in wounding 95 citizens, one of them is Abdul Rahman al-Barmil was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition.
During the confrontation, the Palestinian Intifada men detonated an explosive a patrol near " Mourag" settlement to the South of Gaza and the explosion followed by fire exchanged between the Palestinian Intifada men and the Israeli army units.
Eye- witnesses said the Israeli forces demolished the house of the Palestinian citizen Suleiman al-Ammour in Deir al-Balah after breaking into the house and expelling members of the family composed of nine members and uprooted hundreds of trees surrounding the house and then bulldozed the land.
He Israeli forces also arrested 6 Palestinian youths near Jerusalem after confrontations took place in the old city and near al- Raam cross- road.
Member of the Israeli Likud party and former defense minister Moshe Arenz said that one of the first priority to be adopted by Sharon following the formation of his government is to suppress the Palestinian Intifada by all means.
At the Palestinian level, the Palestinian "Fatah" movement called on its members to intensify its attacks against "the Zionist settlements" in the West Bank as from " Gelo" settlement from which the Israeli attacks are launched.
A statement by the movement said that the succession of Sharon to power means a new phase of continued Intifada to be marked which is to direct hard blows to the Israeli settlers.
For his part, the chairman of the PLO political department Farouk al-Qaddoumi stressed the continuity of the Intifada until the Palestinian objectives to full independence and freedom are realized.
Al-Qaddoumi called on the UN to protect the Palestinian people and recognize their independent state.
The media official at the Palestinian authority Yasser Abd Rabbu stressed that the Palestinian side will resume negotiations from the point they broke off.