Palestinian killed in clashes, Sharon refuses commitment to previous agreements
One Palestinian Youth was killed in Gaza on Thursday morning by the Israeli fire when an Israeli military forces opened their bullet fire at three Palestinians under suspects that they are trying to implant and explosive near the Israeli fence which surrounds Gaza. This resulted in killing one of the three Palestinian youths.
Another Palestinian youth was seriously wounded as a result of an aggression by a group of Israeli settlers in Hebron.
Military sources said that the Palestinian youth Jihad Obeido arrived at an Israeli military siege near halhoul while he still suffered his wounds of the attack.
Violent clashes took place between tens of the Palestinian Intifada youths and the Israeli forces in Hebron which had heavy presence in the city following the visit made by Mitchael fact- find commission on the oppressive israeli acts and aggressions against the Palestinians.
The Palestinians threw stones and explosives against the Israeli forces in retaliation to the Israeli forces's live bullet enclaves by rubber and tear-gases used against the Palestinians.
The cities of Qalqilya, Ramullah and Nablus on Wednesday witnessed Palestinian demonstration in denunciation of the Israeli tanks bombardment of a position for the Palestinian police in Gaza resulted in killing one Palestinian army officer and wounding of three others.
Three Palestinians were wounded, one in a critical health condition as a result of the Israeli artillery bombardment which targeted a Palestinian quarter in Rafah after midnight on Wednesday.
The director of the state run- Abu Youssef al-Najar hospital Ridwan al-Akhras said that three citizens arrived at the hospital hit by shelling of Israeli artillery launched by the Israeli occupation soldiers against al-Barazil camp in Rafah.
In statements quoted by the Israeli radio on Thursday, the commander of Jerusalem police said that thousands of policemen were deployed in the streets and quarters of Jerusalem and fixed and mobile military barriers were installed and all Palestinian cars and shops are inspected.
Tens of Israeli settlers demonstrated on Thursday chanting slogans against the Arabs and the Palestinians and called for expelling the Palestinians from their houses in the city, The Israeli demonstrators also threw explosives at owners of Palestinian shops.
On the other hand, the chairman of the International investigation committee George Michael said that the situations in the occupied Palestinian territories are difficult and tense and require prompt treatment. He expressed hope that his committee will complete its investigations on reasons behind the eruption of the Palestinian Intifada before the end of June.
On the other hand, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said in an arrival statement at the airport from Washington following a visit to the USA which lasted for four days said that he got support from Washington to his policy which rejects any negotiation with the Palestinians as long as the Intifada continues.
In a press conference at Bin Gurion airport, Sharon added " I have reached the objectives I had set to myself before I went on Sunday to Washington," stressing that there will be no negotiations under what he called pressure and violence."We will not start negotiations until calm restored back." He said.
Among the objectives Sharon set for his visit was to reach the maximum agreement between Israel and its first ally, the US and strengthen their bilateral military relations as well as consolidating contacts with President George Bush and member of his government and its friends at the Congress and the American Jews.
Sharon had also renewed his position in rejecting the resumption of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. He said that Washington supports his positions regarding the Intifada in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Sharon told the Israeli army radio in a statement broadcast while he was on his way back to Israel from the US, that there is a full American approval and understanding on the impossibility of surrendering to " violence." He set a precondition to halt the Intifada before resuming negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. No immediate comment was made from the US on Sharon's statements.