Seven Palestinians killed by Israel

Five Palestinians were killed and other 7 wounded in an incursion by the Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun town to the North of Gaza yesterday at dawn.

Palestinian medical sources said that one of the five Palestinians is a ( 15 year old) teenager, while the second is a Palestinian policeman with the identity of the three others still unknown. The five Palestinians were killed at the entrance of Beit Hanoun city where clashes are taking place between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers positioned at the entrance of the town.

News reports said that some 24 Israeli tanks backed by helicopters broke into the town in two directions and stationed at its center and closed all roads leading to it.

Palestinian citizens said that Israeli soldiers used loudspeakers to announce curfew and warn citizens from leaving their houses under intensive fire launching, and the Israeli forces confined to informing the citizens that a military operation is going on.

Palestinian security sources said the Israeli forces blew up by explosives two houses owned by the brothers of an activist at the Islamic resistance movement Hamas and that heavy losses were inflicted in several houses.

Moreover, two Palestinian civilians were murdered on Saturday by the bullets of the Israeli forces in the old part of Nablus, in the West Bank. Seven Palestinians were killed at least since the Israeli forces started its large scale military operation in the old town on Thursday.