Tightened military and economic siege against the Palestinians
The Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and the coming Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon held unanimous views to carry out large- scale military operations against the Palestinians following the Tel Aviv operation on Wednesday.
Meantime, the Israeli forces summoned for this purpose new military build ups to the West Bank and Gaza.
A Palestinian youth was killed on Thursday as the Israeli forces opened fire on him near Kfar daroum settlement to the south of Gaza.
Palestinian sources said that the Palestinian youth is Nasser Muhammad al-Hasanat ( 19 year old) from Deir al-Balah in Gaza and works for one of the Palestinian security departments.
The same sources added that the Palestinian martyr, whose identity was not disclosed immediately was monitored while he entered a farming tent near Kfar daroum settlement to the south of Gaza when the Israeli soldiers opened fire against him.
Meantime, two explosives went off on Thursday when an Israeli military coach passed near al- Fawar camp near Hebron. The volume of casualties resulting from the explosion was not known.
Israeli military sources expected that the resigned Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak to have the intention to carry out a military operation in the Palestinian areas in the few coming days, in response to the Bus operation that took place on Wednesday in Tel Aviv.
The Monte Carlo radio correspondent in the occupied territories noted in this regard to statements made by Barak after the said operation of Tel- Aviv on Wednesday in which he threatened to carry out military acts against the Palestinians.
The correspondent continued that Barak will keep faithful to his old method in economically tightening the siege on the Palestinians and to resort to assassinating key palestinian figures.
In the same context political analysts said that the losses of the Israeli economic and military siege imposed on the Palestinian territories to oppress the Intifada had moved to the depth of the Israeli society and created a controversy in the Israeli society between two visions. The first calls for a large scale military operation targeting the key figures in the Palestinian Authority, as stated by those who are close to the Israeli prime minister elected Ariel Sharon while the second vision calls for continued qualitative operations and assassination according to Barak's method, but also without ruling out the possibility of a large- scale military work.
Meantime, Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians on Wednesday under the pretext of being members in the two palestinian movements of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.
The Israeli military court in Tel Aviv on Wednesday extended the detention period of the Palestinian bus- driver Khalil Abu Abla from Gaza for 15 days, who with his bus rammed into a bus station for the Israeli soldiers and killed nine Israeli soldiers and wounded 24 others, although he was still at Rahbout hospital for medical treatment.
Israeli military sources expected the situation to be escalated after the military measures taken by the Israeli army in all the Palestinian territories and expressed fears of new qualitative operations to be carried out by the Palestinians similar to the bus ram in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
One Israeli settler was wounded during the clashes took place on Thursday between the Palestinian citizens and the Israeli settlers who opened fire while protected by the Israeli soldiers in the industrial army to the north of occupied Jerusalem The israeli forces opened fire on a car for the Canadian embassy upon passing near Gelad Zaeve settlement ion the west bank, thinking it is a Palestinians car. The car was greatly damaged.