One Palestinian killed, 21 wounded; Israeli settlers steal West Bank harvests

One young Palestinian was shot in Jenin by the Israeli bullets at a time when the Israeli forces continued breaking in and storming operations and arrested more than 21 Palestinians in various areas of the West Bank and Gaza.

Backed by the Israeli soldiers, the Israeli settlers stormed into the olive orchards in the West Bank and cultivated the harvest by means of force after the Israeli forces prevented the Palestinians from arriving into their olive fields.

The Israeli military bombardment resulted in great damages in an Oxygen factory and in several houses in al-Mintar area to the east in Gaza.

In the political field, the local rule official in the Palestinian authority Saeb Oreikat received from the US delegate to the Middle East William Burns during their meeting in Areiha yesterday the US wok plan which states the foundation of a Palestinian state on three phases by the fall of 2005.

Oreikat said that the plan which is a draft for American ideas will be studied by the Palestinian authority and that the " Arab brothers will be consulted " together with friends in the world before replying to these ideas officially.

The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon who met yesterday with Burns expressed his concern over the said plan called " road map " which is presumed to be implemented. Sharon called finding out what he called guarantees to halt the Palestinian operations against Israel.