Israel occupies new areas East Rafah
After the Israeli forces converted the area it had occupied in Beit Hanoun city to the north of Gaza into relics and to piles of destruction, these forces on Wednesday returned back to the sector to occupy new areas fall under the control of the Palestinian Authority situated to the East of Rafah and destroyed a center for the Palestinian police under intensive bombardment of the Israeli tanks. The trucks and bulldozers moved to destroy other centers.
News reports said that hundreds of the Palestinians in Beit Hanoun were not able to keep their tears and burst in crying while standing in front of their demolished houses. They walked in the relics, chanted slogans calling on the criminal Israeli army to withdraw from all occupied Arab territories.
The displaced Palestinians told reporters saying: " we have been here for forty years. They ( the Israelis ) destroyed our houses on the furniture and the rabbit and poultry farms, we can not do any thing. Yet, we are steadfast."
Meantime, the Israeli occupation army continued its attacks and aggression, using shells and missiles at the Palestinian houses in several areas and cities in the west bank and Gaza.
The Israeli radio said that the Israeli army opened on Wednesday at dawn its fires at the Palestinians and their houses in Hebron and then followed confrontation and clashes took place between the Palestinians and each of the Israeli army and the settlers who tried to set fire in several Palestinian houses and stores in the city.
The Israeli army also opened its fire at the Palestinians to the north of Ramullah and the Palestinian houses close to Shamroun settlement in the west bank.
One palestinian was killed and other tens wounded during the Israeli bombardment of large areas in the West Bank and Gaza especially in the surrounding of Jerusalem.
News reports said the Israeli army which cut Gaza into three parts on Wednesday evening bombarded the Palestinian towns of al-Khuder, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour and al-Ezza, Aida camps in Bethlehem.
Moreover, Six Palestinians including one woman, were strongly wounded when the Israeli tanks bombarded two suburbs in al-Kahlil ( Hebron) while the Palestinians exchanged fire with the Israeli occupation forces in the region.
Sources at al-Khalil ( Hebron ) hospital said that six Palestinians from one family including a 40- year old woman were wounded seriously in the face and the chest.