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Israeli forces to break into Rafah, five soldiers wounded

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Amid threats to destroy the Palestinian infrastructure, the Israeli occupation forces continued its attacks against the Palestinian people.

The Israeli occupation forces on Monday tried to break into the city of Rafah but was strongly intercepted by the Palestinian resistance resulting in wounding five Israeli soldiers.

Palestinian sources stressed that the occupation forces tried to break into Yabna camp and carried with them large cement blocs in an attempt to install a wall along the border line with Egypt, bombarded several Palestinian houses and greatly damaged them, as a result 22 houses for the Palestinians were destroyed.

The Israeli occupation forces broke once again, into Deir al-Balah in the center of Gaza while other forces was helping the Israeli bulldozers to destroy 50 dunnums of agricultural lands to annex them to Kafer Daroum settlement.

The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said the Israeli occupation army is making intensive preparations in the border area lines with the Palestinian territories aiming at preventing the Palestinians inside what Israel calls " the green line" because it is a direct line with the areas of the Palestinian authorities with the aim of preventing the Palestinians from entering into Israel claiming that the existence of Palestinians inside what is called the " green line" is a danger on Israel, noting that his government embarks on dealing with this issue.

Meantime, one Palestinian youth from Sakhnin village of the territories of 1948 was killed on Monday after an Israeli settler opened fire at him.

The Israeli forces arrested three Palestinian youths near Barkan settlement in the West Bank after an explosive went off in an Israeli car tied to a gas cylinder and was detonated by a remote control system.

Israeli military sources said the Sharon government will ask the Palestinian authority to re-arrest the activists of " Hamas " and the " Islamic Jihad" who were released recently and admitted that more 1000 Palestinian workers were arrested by the Israeli forces.

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