Two Palestinians killed in Gaza, a Palestinian- Israeli meeting

Two civilian Palestinians were killed yesterday by the Israeli soldiers bullets in the north of Gaza. Israeli military sources said that the two Palestinians were among 6 persons who tried to enter Israel, in search of work. The Israeli army arrested the third man, and is now searching for the other three men who were able to sneak into Israel.

Yesterday at dawn, an Israeli force, backed by tanks, incurred into Khan Younis camp for the Palestinian refugees in southern Gaza, and destroyed 8 houses, including three deserted houses and other five whose owners fear to sleep in at night because of the continued Israeli aggressions.

Palestinian armed men challenged the occupation forces, and violent clashes took place in which the Palestinians said that two Israeli soldiers were injured when an explosive was thrown at them.

Concerning the American diplomatic efforts to resume the suspended peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the American special envoy David Satterfield succeeded in arranging a tripartite meeting yesterday. The meeting aims at arranging a summit meeting between the Palestinian and Israeli Premiers Ahmad Qrei and Ariel Sharon, in order to launch a long term discussion concerning the Roadmap peace plan which aims at ending three years of the Palestinian Intifada.

The US Under Secretary of State, David Satterfield, had met during the two past days with Palestinian and Israeli officials in separate meetings, to confirm the impatience of Washington over the failure in achieving progress between the two sides in implementation of their obligations concerning the Roadmap.

The Palestinian minister in charge of the negotiations file, Saeb Oreikat, said that Monday's meeting was to discuss ways of implementing the Roadmap.