Israeli forces break into Kafer al-Harith village
The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has renewed his government's rejection to the deployment of UN observers in the occupied Arab territories or to hold negotiations with the Palestinian side unless the Intifada is halted.
Meantime, The Israeli army forces broke into Kafer al-Harith village and arrested 8 of its people while the Israeli tanks positioned in the surrounding of the town. Confrontation continued between the Palestinian Intifada youths and the Israeli soldiers in several areas of the Palestinian areas.
The Israeli authorities announced that it had handed the body of " martyr" Mustafa Yassin to the Palestinian Authority. Yassin was kidnapped from his house in Atba village near Jenin and was taken to one of the Israeli investigation centers where the investigators fired at him three shots to death.
The " Islamic Jihad" movement said that Yassin is not a member in it and that the claim made by Israel that he had transported a " Palestinians who carried out a suicide attack against Israelis" to the territories of 1948 was just mere lies and that Yassin was working as a salesman.
While, the body of an Israeli was found after he was stabbed in Ramullah, Thousands of Palestinians held a funeral for martyrs Rifaat Nahal ( 15 year old) who was assassinated by an Israeli special unit in the north of the West Bank, stressing continued confrontation of the Israeli occupation. The Palestinian teenager threw two bombs at an Israeli armored vehicle near Rafah.
The chairman of the " Counter terrorism" department Ereh Barkhakh admitted that the Israeli settlers are practicing on daily basis on the use of various types of weapons they are provided from the Israeli army in order to kill more Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, during his meeting with the EU foreign policy official Javier Solana, asked the EU member states to contribute to easing down conditions through what he called pressuring the chairman of the Palestinian territories Yasser Arafat, refusing at the same time to send UN observers to the occupied Arab territories and to make negotiations with the Palestinian side unless the Intifada is halted.
Sharon stressed the commitment of his government to ensure the security of the settlers and to expand and foster the settlements.
On the other hand, the new American ambassador to Israel Daniel Kertzer said he will work with the Israel and Palestinian sides to accept UN observers to halt cease fire between the two sides.