Nine Palestinians killed by the Israelis
Some nine Palestinians were killed while the Israeli authorities tightened siege measures on the Palestinian areas.
The two Palestinian youths Muhammad Salem Sama'enah and Muhammad Ibrahim Sama'enah were murdered by an Israeli shell to the west of Nablus.
Palestinian news reports said that the two murdered Palestinians are from the Fatah movement and they were killed in Beit Eiba which falls under the security control of the Palestinian authority.
The Palestinian youth Wael Ali Ridwan ( 15 year old) was murdered when the Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinians while walking near " Nafe Dekalim" settlement in Khan Younis during the funeral held for the five Palestinian school students who were murdered by Israel on Thursday.
In an attack launched by an Israeli helicopter, Apatchi, at a Palestinian car near Nablus, three Palestinians from Tallouza village were killed. They are the two brothers Aymen and Ma'moun Hasheykah and the third was Mahmoud Abu Hannoud, the leading figure of the Hamas movement.
Palestinian press sources said that Abu Hannoud is the target of the Israeli assassination operation.
Moreover, three Palestinians were also killed in Rafah on Friday evening by the Israeli army.
Palestinian sources said that the three killed people were two women and one man and eye-witnesses said that the Israeli forces prevented the Palestinian ambulances from reaching the area where the three persons existed to be admitted to the Palestinian hospitals.
News reports said that five teenagers were wounded in this incident also and other four wounded at the northern entrance of al-Beera city and others were hit by the poisonous gases released by Israeli soldiers at a Palestinian demonstration.
Meantime, Ramullah witnessed a massive people's demonstration during which the demonstrators chanted anti Israeli occupation slogans.
Meantime, the Israeli forces deployed new military vehicles to Qalqilya areas and blocked the roads leading to Bethlehem, closed Jerusalem and carried out mopping up operations in various Palestinian areas surrounding the settlements.
An Israeli military spokesman said that the police will file to the attorney general a list of accusations against the Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Ikramah Sabri because he is one of the persons provoking against occupation.
In his Friday's sermon at al-Aqsa mosque, Sheikh Ikrama called for liberating all occupied Arab territories. "The existence of occupation in Jerusalem is temporarily and will not last long," Ikrama said.
France has expressed deep sadness for the murdering of the five Palestinian children expressing sympathy with the families of those innocent victims.
The spokesman for the French foreign ministry Bernard Valero said that this " incident is saddening and indicates the urgent need to find out a solution for the conflict in the region."