One Palestinian killed; shelling a settlement in Gaza

Palestinian gunmen fired 20 mortars shells at the Israeli Neve Dekailm settlement in Gaza, causing slight damage. Settlers sources said that the shells fell intensively within several hours, and targeted a commercial area in the settlement which is inhabited by 2400 Israelis.

One Palestinian was killed yesterday morning by the bullets of the Israeli soldiers in a village near Ramullah in the West Bank.

An Israeli military source said that an occupation patrol killed Riad Khalaf, one of the Islamic Jihad movement fighters. in its operations near Kafer Numeh village, and claimed that the killed man was carrying a machine gun and had opened fire as he was approaching soldiers of a patrol.

Citizens in Kafer Ne'meh said that the occupation forces incurred in the village at dawn, and imposed curfew. The citizens added that two members of the Islamic Jihad movement were captured in the same operation, noting that the two men had fled the Israeli jails several days earlier.

In a similar incursion in Khan Younis Camp for the Palestinian refugees in Gaza, five Palestinians including three children were hit by the bullets of the Israeli soldiers yesterday at dawn. News reports said that one house was burnt after the Israeli tanks bombarded al-Amal quarters in the city, while other 20 houses were damaged in this operation.

However, on the 16th anniversary of the Islamic resistance movement ( Hamas ), marches took the streets of Rafah in southern Gaza and Nablus in the West Bank.