Israeli bomb against a school in Hebron resulted in wounding 7 children
The Israeli forces on Thursday intensively opened its fire against the Palestinian houses in several areas especially against Gaza and Rafah amid the escalated Israeli calls to tighten the siege.
As 7 Palestinian children were wounded when the Israeli soldiers threw a bomb inside the playground of an elementary school in Hebron, the body of the Palestinian youth Murtaja Amro was found. He was killed by the Israeli bullets on Wednesday near Qalqilya.
On Wednesday the Israeli forces wounded several Palestinian children when fire opened at them in Deir Azzam village near Ramallah.
Meantime, Israeli settlers from Kakh movement attacked the families of the Palestinian who were killed in the events of the land day incidents of the territories of 1948.
At the political level, the Israeli government stressed it will not resume negotiations with the Palestinian Authority until after the Palestinian Intifada is halted and that the Israeli army will continue oppression acts by all means.
For his part, the US secretary of State Colin Powell said it is difficult to think of achieving a progress in the negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel without a recession on the confrontation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
Meanwhile, the Israeli daily Maareve said that the US President George Bush who will be receiving the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon sets a condition to meet with the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat by halting the Palestinian Intifada before meeting with him.
He executive director of the national society of the Americans of Arab origin Khalil Jahshan said that Powell stressed during his meeting on Wednesday with the Arab community in the USA that Washington's policy towards Jerusalem will not be changed and is only linked to the direct negotiations between sides concerned.
Moreover seven palestinian children were wounded when the Israeli forces threw a bomb in the courtyard of one of the elementary schools in Hebron.
Eye-witnesses said that one Israeli soldier threw a bomb in the courtyard of the school while the children were leaving the building, noting one of the children had burns on his face.
The Israeli army forces also opened fire against the Palestinians while crossing near Mourag settlements nears Rafah, and Neveit Dekalim in the entrance of Gaza.
In retaliation the Palestinian Intifada youths threw stones at the Israeli army soldiers and two explosives against the Israeli vehicles near neveit Dekalim settlement.
News reports from the occupied Palestinian territories said the Israeli army still have an iron fist on the Palestinian villages and cities and therefore prevented the Palestinians from the move despite the Israeli claims it had alleviated the siege on these areas.
In a message from the West Bank, the Monte Carlo radio on Thursday explained that the military installed by the Israeli army on the crossing of the Palestinian territories are still in contrary to the claims by the Israeli authorities that it had alleviated the military siege on these areas.
Meantime, the occupied Jerusalem witnessed a pan Palestinian trade strike in protest of the Israeli siege against the city besides the Israeli authorities holding of funds deserved for the Palestinian people.
Two Palestinian demonstrations were also held on Thursday in Gaza. One of them in protest of the israeli forces bulldozing of the Palestinian territories and the second demonstration was organized by the Palestinian workers in the health sector who submitted a memorandum to the UN secretary general Kofi Annan in which they warned against the possibility that the israeli military siege against the Palestinian areas will result in health tragedies and environmental problems of drastic results.