One Palestinian killed tens wounded by Israeli shelling
As the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon gave his instructions to tighten the military siege imposed on the Palestinians towns and villages, the Israeli forces intensified its attack measures against the Palestinians and one Palestinian was killed and many wounded by the Israeli bullets. Palestinian sources said that Sharon has started the war and he is determinant to commit massacres.
One Palestinian was killed and 22 were wounded during confrontation took place between the Intifada youths and the Israeli forces in Beir Zeit town, Ramallah and several teenagers were wounded when Israeli forces tried to foil a public demonstration in Ramallah.
Meantime, the Israeli forces arrested seven Palestinians in al-Tibe town in the Palestinian territories of 1948 under charges of taking part in the Intifada and demolished 8 houses in Zafeita village and this resulted in confrontation between the Israeli " demolishing units" ( those ordered to destroy houses ) and the Arab citizens who tries to defend their houses.
The Palestinian official in charge of the media at the palestinian authority Yasser Abd Rabbu who led the demonstration in Beir Zeit said that Sharon has started the war against the Palestinian people and that what is now taking place in the occupied territories is but the beginning f the massacres.
He urged the international community on the need to put an end to the "Israeli racism" and to force Sharon's government to lift the siege imposed on the Palestinian areas and to abide by international legitimacy resolutions and the peace terms of reference. He added that " Sharon was which he had started against the unarmed Palestinians requires a rapid international intervention and deployment of UN forces in order to protect the Palestinians."
Meanwhile news reports said on Monday that the Israeli army started an operation of implanting hundreds of anti- personnel and vehicles mines inside al-Beira city and in the branch routes linking the cities of the West Bank.
Palestinian sources said that experts could dismantle tens of mines in the surrounding of the Palestinian villages but there are still fears of other hundreds of mines which will harm the citizens.
Sharon had given directives to his forces to tighten the siege on the Palestinian areas and to pursue a collective punishment plan for the Palestinians.
In a first meeting he presided over his government Sharon said that the siege aims at preventing the Palestinian attacks, refusing to hold a meeting with Arafat unless the Intifada is halted.
One Palestinian citizen in Jerusalem said that the Palestinians are living in the city ( of Jerusalem) is a huge prison and that the Israeli forces had cut all means of communications between them and other Palestinian territories.