Intifada continues, a booby trapped car went off in Jerusalem
Besides confrontations of the cities of the West bank and Gaza, the Palestinians of 1948 territories actively held massive demonstrations on Monday and general strike was observed in the Arab villages and cities in the Galilee, al-Karmel.
News reports said that al-Nasera and Kafer Kanna town were filled with banners saying: " we, the Arabs, will not forgive Israel for its crime, we will never forget our martyrs and be always with the Intifada of our people."
The Israeli forces arrested 8 persons from al-Nasera, while in Um al-Fahem one Israeli army soldier was wounded during the clashes in the town and an explosive went off in an Israeli patrol to the east of the town.
In the West Bank a booby trapped car went off near " the Banks" area in Talbyout settlement in Jerusalem and the Israeli forces admitted that several Israelis were wounded as a result many of them are in critical conditions and that this explosion resulted also in damaging several cars.
Israeli police sources said that nothing in the booby trapped car was found and held the people's front for the liberation of Palestine responsible for the explosion. However, al-Quds group of the Islamic Jihad declared responsibility for the explosion.
Another explosion went off near an Israeli camp in Nablus district when an Israeli patrol was running nearby and this resulted in destroying the car and wounding the soldiers inside it.
Explosives were thrown at an Israeli position near rafah and the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim was exposed to several shelling.
Meantime, the Palestinian child Hisham Ali Darraj ( 13 year old) was hit by the Israeli bullets in Ramullah and the Israeli police permitted what is called the group of " secretaries of the temple" to hold on Thursday celebrations to lay the foundation stone for the third Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
The Israeli government ratified the founding of four new settlements in the West Bank and one settlement in Gaza which will be inaugurated next Sunday.
A Palestinian report said that the Israeli forces confiscated during the months of the Intifada some 42,000 dunnums from the territories of the West Bank and Gaza and destroyed 4773 buildings and 29 mosques, 12 churches in the west bank and isolated 150,000 dunnums in the framework of a racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian territories.
While the Israeli forces incurred once again in Khan Younis area for 70 meters under the pretext of preventing launching shells at Neve Dekalim settlement, the Israeli minister of the Interior threatened to strike the Palestinian infrastructure and oppress the Palestinian Intifada by all means.
The Israeli minister said that the grace period of the cease-fire has been terminated and the Israel army is preparing to strike the Palestinian positions it views as dangerous.