-Caveat Lector- Fatah activist hurt in assassination bid amid scattered violence http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010606/world/afp/Fatah_activist_hurt_in_alleged_assassination_bid_amid_scattered_violence.html RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 5 (AFP) - A member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction was seriously wounded Tuesday in what Palestinians called an Israeli assassination attempt amid scattered clashes that left 15 others hurt. Fatah member Ashraf Bardaweil, 27, was driving his car near the village of Dhanabeh near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank when it was hit by a missile, Fatah official Faeq Kanaan told AFP, describing it as an assassination bid. An Israeli army spokesman said there was "no basis" to Palestinian claims the army was involved in the incident, saying the allegation was "another example of Palestinian incitement." A top Israeli official, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin, said however the Jewish state would continue its policy of tracking down wanted Palestinians in its "fight against terrorists." The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel of carrying out more than 30 extra-judicial killings of Palestinian activists since the start of the uprising against Israeli occupation in late September. Medical sources said Bardaweil was in a serious condition in hospital. Eight Palestinians were lightly wounded as Israeli forces opened fire with rubber bullets to break up a crowd of Palestinian students trying to break through a roadblock near Ramallah in the West Bank, witnesses said. Several hundred students wanting to reach their university at Bir Zeit, the leading faculty in the West Bank, hurled stones at troops who responded by opening fire, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Three of them needed hospital treatment. Israel has tightened its closure on the Palestinian territories since a suicide bomb blast at a Tel Aviv nightclub on Friday, killing the bomber and 20 young people, in the deadliest such attack in years. Another Palestinian man was in a "very serious condition" after being shot in the head with a live bullet in later clashes in the Ramallah area after demonstrations to mark the 34th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Three more people were lightly wounded after similar protests in the southern West Bank flashpoint town of Hebron. In other incidents, three Palestinian children were moderately injured by shrapnel in the southern Gaza Strip in an explosion while playing near the border with Egypt, Palestinian doctors and security officials said. The officials said the explosive device was Israeli, but it was not clear what kind of device it was. Israeli public radio also reported that shots were fired at an Israeli vehicle near the West Bank village of Halhoul, in the Hebron area, but reported no injuries. A Palestinian security source said soldiers had opened fire on a Palestinian police roadblock in the Halhoul area, wounding one of them in the foot. A Palestinian security officer, Majdi Alawneh, who worked with Israeli officials at the civilian administration level, was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint on the road between Jenin and Nablus in the northern West Bank, Palestinian officials said. Israeli military sources said the officer was held for "terrorist activities." A second Palestinian, Iyad Mardawi, was also arrested overnight near Qalqilya, they said, without giving further details. In other incidents overnight, the radio said an Israeli was lightly wounded when stones were thrown at his car south of Nablus and shots were fired at Israeli vehicles near the Jewish settlement of Ariel and near the Palestinan-run town of Qalqiliya. Five Israeli tanks were seen stationed on the northeastern outskirts of Nablus, an area where Israel has security control. Arafat ordered his security forces on Saturday to implement a ceasefire after a deadly suicide attack in Tel Aviv that killed 20 young people raised fears of harsh Israeli reprisals. Some 25 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were wounded on Monday in the first exchange of fire since Arafat issued his orders. On Monday, the military wing of Hamas and an armed group belonging to Arafat's Fatah faction announced acceptance of the truce, conditional on Israel's acceptance of a withdrawal from the occupied territories. 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