Israeli forces strike a mosque, kindergarten
The Israeli bombardment against the Palestinians on Wednesday targeted a children kindergarten and a mosque near Khan Younis town and Absan town and it resulted in great damages in both the mosque and the kindergarten and in other adjoining buildings.
The Israeli forces, using heavy artillery and tanks bombarded the two said districts and fire was exchanged between armed Palestinians and the israeli forces on Wednesday at dawn in Absan.
Eye-witnesses said that the child Fatimah Khaled Abu Saleh was hit by a bullet into her hip.
On Wednesday at dawn, the Israeli soldiers broke into the Azoun village to the north of Qilqelya and arrested several Palestinian citizens and inspecting their houses under the pretext that those Palestinians took part in the Intifada.
The Israeli forces demolished a house for a Palestinian in Arafat village to the south of Ramullah and the Israeli soldiers informed the citizens of the village of the need to evacuate it because it is close to " Atrout " settlement.
News reports said that the Palestinian citizens in Azoun and Arafat villages clashed with the Israeli forces using stones. The Israeli forces cordoned Qilqelya while the Israeli bulldozers was leveling many of its orchards and destroy its plantation.
The Palestinian citizens reacted to these acts and clashed using stones with the Israeli occupation forces and the armed settlers. One of the settlers was wounded near Kokhav Yaer settlement.
The Israeli authorities authorized the settlers in the settlements of the west bank and Gaza to use live ammunition against the Palestinian citizens.
Meantime, the Israeli army chief of staff Shaoul Mofaz expected a great increase in the confrontation and clashes and held the Palestinian authority the responsibility for that escalation.
Mofaz admitted that the military and economic siege contribute to a great extent to escalating the confrontation.
The secretary of the "Fatah " Movement Marwan al-Barghouti stressed that the Palestinians will proceed in their Intifada against the Israeli occupation so as to attain freedom and independence, regardless to sacrifices. He continued that the Israeli threats will not frighten the Palestinian and the Intifada will not stop even if Arafat gives his instructions on that because it has become a " strategic option."