Three Israeli military men killed in Palestinian operation; Israelis kill 4 Palestinians in storming houses

The Palestinian resistance forces yesterday carried out a "suicide" operation at a fuel station at the entrance of Arbeil settlement to the north of the West Bank that resulted in killing three Israeli soldiers and wounding other 30.

Eye witnesses said that the executor of the operation detonated the explosive he was carrying near a bus carrying several Israeli soldiers in a place which is not far from a hotel and a trade center.

The witnesses said that the executors of the operation detonated himself after he monitored the Israeli soldiers in front of a gas station at the entrance of the settlement, while Israeli security forces admitted the killing of the three Israeli military men in the operation including two army officers.

A spokesman for "al-Aqsa martyrs" claimed responsibility for the operation. He stressed in a telephone call with the AFP that the executor of the operation is Muhammad Shuqeir ( 19 year old) from Nablus, after the Israeli radio admitted that most of the killed and wounded are soldiers.

Meantime, three Palestinians were killed, including one child, during the Israeli forces breaking in into Raas al-Ein quarters in the city of Nablus.

Palestinian sources said that one of the killed Palestinians is Ahmad Jawad Allah of the al-Aqsa groups, noting that one Israeli soldier was wounded during the storming in operation.

One Palestinian was killed and other 7 wounded, one in a grave condition, from the Israeli tanks bombardment of al-Brazil quarters in Rafah where several Palestinian houses were demolished while the Israeli vehicles leveled vast area of agricultural lands under the pretext that there are tunnels in it.