Israel kill one Palestinian, detain 30; Palestinian police commander survives assassination
News reports in Palestine said that fire exchanged were heard from the headquarters of the Palestinian police in Gaza. A statement issued by the Palestinian ministry of the interior said an armed group entered the headquarters of the police in an attempt to assassinate the commander of the Palestinian police lt. Gen. Ghazi al-Jabali who survived the attempt.
Some 11 police members and officers were injured in the incident, according to the statement.
This comes hours after the murder of one Palestinian by the Israeli forces in al-Mighraqa area to the south of Gaza. Groups of the Palestinian national resistance, the military wing of the Democratic Front For the Liberation of Palestine said in a statement that the martyr is Mahmoud Samir al-Dibs.
The statement explained that al-Dibs was killed as he attacked together with a group of the resistance groups a convoy of settlers cars and the occupation army on Karni- Natsareim to the south of Gaza.
Meantime, an Israeli military spokesman said that the occupation forces detained on Wednesday evening some 30 Palestinians including 20 members of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, during breaking in and incursion operations in the West Bank.
These fields developments come after peace efforts witnessed another set back after, once again, Palestinian and Israeli officials failed to specify a date to convene the forthcoming summit between the Israeli prime minister Ahmad Qurei' and his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon.
Assistants for both Qurei' and Sharon discussed along three hours on Wednesday necessary arrangements for the two sides to implement their obligations in the Roadmap and to set a date for a summit between the two prime ministers, waited for since Qurei' assumed his post in October 2003.
A statement issued by the Israeli side said that it was agreed to convene another preliminary meeting in the near future in order to complete discussions in issues to be discussed between the two prime ministers, giving no further explanations.