Israeli forces broke into Rafah, destroy 20 houses

An Israeli military force, backed by tanks and bulldozers broke into Salah Eddine Gate and the Palestinian Blouk camp in Rafah and incurred for an area of 100 meters and opened fires of its shells and heavy machine guns at the Palestinian houses and this resulted in destroying more than 20 houses and 6 trade centers and the expulsion of more than 600 persons and wounding several Palestinians.

Meantime, the Palestinian Intifada youths confronted the Israeli forces by explosives and stones and wounded three Israeli soldiers and threw 22 bombs at an Israeli position and detonated an explosive near Gaza.

The Israeli bulldozers uprooted on Tuesday hundreds of olive trees from Eastern Bartaa ( Bartaa al-Sharqia ) village and destroyed thousands of dunnums of agricultural lands.

Meanwhile the Israeli police found the body of an Israeli settler near Safeh settlement near al-Ludd airport which was put under security measures following news on exploding a booby trapped car in it.