Israel tightens the siege against the Palestinians

The Israeli settlers on Tuesday rushed into the main cross roads in al-Khalil and Halhoul in the occupied West Bank and harassed the Palestinians and stopped and then damaged their cars.

The Israeli settlers carried out these attacks under the protection of the Israeli soldiers who installed military barriers in the region and prevented the Palestinians from heading to their work places, while reports stressed that the Israeli settlers impose an additional siege to the one already imposed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian areas.

In the village of Um al-Saffa, of Ramullah district a group of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian citizens and destroyed their properties, while the Israeli forces closed Toulkarem area and tightened the siege on them through a group of military barriers.

In the village of Madma to the south of Nablus the Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian citizens and burnt two cars and cut tens of trees, while the Israeli forces imposed curfew on the villages of Beit Leid and Safarin and closed the roads leading to Nablus.

As Veve Dakalim settlement was exposed to a cease- fire by four mortars, an Israeli spokeswoman said that one Israeli woman settler died on Monday because of her wounds she had during the suicide operation in Tel Aviv in the first of June and therefore number of persons killed in this operation tolled 21.

Meantime, thousands of Palestinians on Tuesday held a funeral for Palestinian Adel Hassan Qannan ( 16 year old) who died because of his wounds as a result of the Israeli bullets in Khan Younis. The participants in the funeral vowed to continue the Intifada until its set objectives are realized.