Strong confrontations in the Palestinian territories, 2 Palestinians killed, 15 wounded
Amid news reports on Israel's withdrawal from Beit Jala to the surrounding of the city, the Israeli forces once again incurred into the city of Hebron where the Palestinians hurried to defend their city. Strong clashes erupted in which two Palestinians were killed and many others wounded. Heavy losses were also inflicted on the Israeli side.
The Israeli prime minister, on the other hand, made a provocative inspection tour to the Israeli forces deployed along the borders with Lebanon and he was accompanied by high ranking army officers.
Following the breaking in into Hebron, strong confrontations took place and resulted in the killing of Mousa Safi, a doctor, while giving aids to the wounded and other 9 Palestinians wounded.
News reports said that the Israeli forces carried out a vast campaign of arrest in the lines of the Palestinians in the Yanta town Hebron and arrested 23 Palestinians.
Strong confrontations also took place in Toulkarem, resulted in killing the Palestinian Dawoud Salah al-Samhawi, while several Palestinians were hit by the Israeli bullets in confrontations that took place in Nablus. News reports added that the Israeli settlers took part in opening fire at the Palestinians to the south of Nablus and this resulted in killing a Palestinian car driver and wounding of his brother.
In Ramullah, one of the Israeli settlers was killed by Palestinians who opened fire at him near Nahallin village.
In Toulkarem, an Israeli attempt failed to assassinate Anwar Omar Oleyan, one of the activists of the Islamic Jihad, thanks to the ability of his friends to encounter the Israeli military unit before reaching him.
In Gaza the palestinian Intifada youths attacked Israeli cars and a military position near Ghoushe Katieve settlement and the Israeli radio admitted that one of the Israeli settlers was wounded.
Other Palestinian teenagers attacked the Israeli military vehicles which escorted the bulldozers while demolishing the houses in Rafah and this resulted in wounding four Palestinians by the Israeli bullets.
Meantime, the Israeli forces demolished 6 Palestinian houses in al-Brazil camp in Rafah but the confrontation of the invading force by the Palestinians forced it to pullout while still several Israeli tanks are stationed in their positions near the border strip with Egypt.
Meanwhile, in the course of the reaction to the Israeli acts against the Palestinians the Danish foreign minister said that Israel's behaviors are not acceptable and that the European states have started increasingly to criticize the collective punishment policy against the Palestinian people and destroying its houses and properties. He indicated that the countries of north Europe called on the US to put pressure on Israel to force it halting its aggression on the Palestinians.
The Finnish foreign minister resembled the practices pursued by the Israeli occupation forces to the Nazi policy. He said that Israel conducts a policy of humiliating, hunger and repression against the Palestinians.
The British foreign minister Jack Straw welcomed the pullout of the Israeli tanks from Beit Jala. He said " it was not proper that Israel to have had broken into this area from the very beginning."