Grave Israeli escalation, six Palestinians killed
Six Palestinians were killed on Thursday during the confrontation with the Israeli forces in various Palestinian areas in the West bank and Gaza, where the Israeli forces continued their intensive aggression started on Wednesday against the Palestinian areas.
The Israeli forces sealed off completely Ramullah and Jenin after they had broken into these area earlier in the day by tanks and violent clashes took place between the Israeli invading forces and citizens of the two cities.
The Israeli authorities also imposed curfew on al- Eizareyah village to the east of Jerusalem and arrested several of its citizens and the Israeli tanks and military bulldozers incurred for hundreds of meters into Beit Lahia in Gaza near Elie Sinai settlement and demolished several houses for the Palestinian peasants and more than 300 dunnums of the Palestinian agricultural lands.
Mathan Falna'i, the Israeli minister of Labor said that the current operation by the Israeli military army in breaking into Jenin and Ramullah cities is the first step of a series of military measures the Israeli government decided to carry out inside the Palestinian areas.
The mini Israeli Cabinet has concluded on Thursday morning a special meeting by drawing a military plan provided for breaking into the Palestinian areas and positioning inside it in order to tighten the siege on the Palestinians to force them to accept the israeli conditions to halt the Intifada.
A statement released by the said mini Cabinet meeting called on the Palestinian authority to detain the Palestinians who killed the Israeli minister of tourism Rahba'am Ziefi on Wednesday and considering the Palestinian groups and organizations as banned organizations.
Israeli military sources said that this statement is but an ultimate warning against the Palestinians and that Israel is the only side which decided when this warning is terminated.
Detailed news reports said that three, members in the Fatah movement were killed in the raid by an Israeli helicopter near Bethlehem in the West Bank. They are Atif Obeiyat, Issa al-Khatib and Obeid Allah Nawawrah who were killed when their car was hit by the Israeli helicopter.
Two other Palestinians were killed by the Israeli bullets in Ramullah in the West Bank during the clashes erupted as the Israeli tanks and bulldozers incurred into the north and north east of the city. One of the two killed Palestinians is Muhammad Zeyad Abu Raas, member of force no 17 of the Palestinian authority and the second is Marwan Ibrahim al-Masri.
A five year old palestinian child was killed when she was in her way to school with a group of students when the Israeli forces opened fire at them and this resulted also in wounding other three students.
In retaliation, the Palestinian Intifada youths threw 19 bombs at positions for the Israeli army positions in Rafah. They also threw 6 bombs and explosives at an Israeli military position near Nevet dekalim settlement in Gaza. Three Palestinians were wounded with one in a critical health condition when the Palestinian youths opened fire at their car on Jerusalem- Areiha road.