One al-Qassam leader killed, Israeli forces invade Gaza, the West Bank

One leading figure in Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas was killed by the bullets of the Israeli occupation forces today at dawn in Beit Hanoun to the north of Gaza.

News reports in Gaza said that Nahid Abu Odeh was killed following fierce confrontations between Palestinian resistance men and the occupation soldiers in Gaza. the reports explained that Israeli military sources stressed that two of its soldiers were injured in the clashes and one of them is strongly wounded.

The reports indicated that four Israeli ambulances hurried to the site of the clashes which lasted for half an hour in which helicopters took place.

The Israeli forces tightenedly besieged Beit Hanoun since several days and its equipments are leveling vast areas of the agricultural lands while people in the besieged area are suffering difficult humanitarian conditions because of the lack of food and medicines.

In Khan Younis camp to the south of Gaza, three Palestinians were injured by the occupation forces which demolished several houses today at dawn. Seven Israeli tanks and three bulldozers broke into the western part of the camp.

Meantime, the Israeli forces carried out a similar incursion on the West Bank in three of its cities late yesterday evening.

News reports in Nablus said that an Israeli force composed of 10 armored vehicles and reinforced by bulldozers broke into the city and confiscated houses of citizens especially those overlooking the old town.