Two Palestinians killed; new Palestinian operation against Israelis

The Israeli occupation forces yesterday broke into Askar camp near Nablus and opened fire against houses and this resulted in killing a Palestinian, Jihad al-Natour ( 24 year old), when he was beating his drum to declare ( al-Sohour) time for fasting people to arise, while another Palestinian, Ateyah al-Rabab'a (33 year old), was shot by the Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem.

Meantime, an Israeli Apache bombarded Khan Younis and the Israeli forces launched a campaign of arrest which covered scores of Palestinians in the cities of the West Bank.

A special Israeli force broke into al-Beira town near Ramullah and kidnapped Marwan Abu Mousa, one of the Hamas officials, and the Israeli soldiers attacked a group of school students and children in al Tour quarters in Jerusalem because they were throwing stones on the Israeli patrols.

Moreover, the Israeli forces continued its campaign of breaking into mosques and churches under the pretext of searching for resistance fighters, and arrested and detained several worshippers in Beitina village near Nablus and Balatah camp.

One Palestinian was killed in a booby trapped car near Natsareim settlement in Gaza, while Palestinian sources said that the said man detonated the car while he was inside it near an Israeli military checkpoint, and this resulted in the destruction of an Israeli establishment. The Israeli forces imposed tough measures on the area.

The People's Front For the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for this operation, noting in a statement for the group of martyr Abu Ali Mustafa that the Palestinian Muhannad Ismael Mahdi, of the Geifara groups, broke in, "in a heroic operation," into an Israeli military position to the west of Beit Hanoun and that this operation came ina retaliation to the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people and that the operation was photographed together with the position where the fire flared.