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Two Israelis stabbed in attack on settlement near Ramallah
Two Israelis were wounded Wednesday evening, one critically, in a stabbing attack
in the West Bank settlement of Nahliel, north of Ramallah. The other victims suffered
moderate injuries.
The two were airlifted by helicopter to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer for
treatment.
Israel Radio reported that IDF troops were searching the area for two perpetrators of
the attack, who fled the scene after the stabbing. It also said that residents of the
settlement had been ordered to stay inside their homes.
IDF soldier dies of wounds sustained in Ramallah gunbattle
Lieutenant Gil Badihi, 21, from Nataf, died Wednesday afternoon in Hadassah
University Hospital, Ein Karem of head injuries sustained earlier in the day during a
gunbattle in the neighborhood of A-Tira in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Also Wednesday, an Italian freelance journalist was killed by IDF tank fire in
Ramallah, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said.
Photographer Rafael Ciriello, 42, on assignment for the Italian daily Courier della
Sera, had worked in many of the world's hot spots. He was shot six times in the
chest while covering the IDF takeover of Ramallah and is believed to be the first
journalist killed in the year and a half of intense Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
A witness to the fatal shooting, fellow journalist Amide Rococo, said he and his
colleague were following Palestinian gunmen through the center of Ramallah at
about 9:30 A.M. (07:30 GMT) when an IDF tank appeared from around the corner.
He said soldiers on the tank fired a machine gun from about 150 meters (yards)
without warning, striking Ciriello in the stomach.
Doctors said he was hit six times in the abdomen. Rococo and another colleague,
both of whom work for Italian television Rae No, were not hurt.
"Suddenly a tank appeared from a corner and it opened fire," Rococo said. "There
was no fighting in the area."
In an interview with Rae TV, Rococo said in hindsight it appeared the Palestinian
gunmen they saw earlier were signaling the arrival of the Israelis. He also added that
after the burst of machine gunfire from the tank, he saw that an armed Palestinian
had come out from behind the corner.
The IDF, which tightened its grip on Ramallah on Wednesday against the backdrop
of daily Palestinian attacks in Israel, said it did not know the circumstances of
Ciriello's death and had opened an investigation. "There has been cross fire for
several days," said IDF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Rafowicz. "We are not
rushing to conclusions."
"It is important to remember that there have been exchanges of fire in Ramallah, and
that this was the reason the army closed off the area to journalists yesterday,"
Rafowicz said.
The French photographer, known to colleagues only by his first name, was hit by
shrapnel while working with colleagues near Manara Square, not far from where
Ciriello was killed an hour earlier.
The journalists saw a Palestinian gunman firing down a street, when suddenly a
bomb went off near the gunman, sending shrapnel flying, said Benjamin Lazily, a
French photographer present. Palestinian gunmen often plant small bombs in the
streets intended for IDF tanks.
In a third incident, a 35-year-old Egyptian TV correspondent, Tare Abel Jabber, said
IDF soldiers fired at least five shots at his car, clearly marked with big TV signs,
when he and a cameraman were driving in Ramallah. Jabber said one bullet struck
him in the right side, but was stopped by a flak jacket.
Abu Fadi, deputy commander in Ramallah for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat's Force 17 elite guard, was killed in new fighting, Palestinian security sources
said. They gave no details.
At least one other Palestinian was said to have been killed Wednesday in the
fighting, which has claimed dozens of Palestinian lives in the West Bank and Gaza
this week.
Ramallah, to which Arafat was confined by Israeli decree since December, was
taken over by IDF troops in a large-scale operation over the past few days.
Two wounded in Wadi Ara shooting attack
A gunman opened fire overnight Tuesday on a convoy of cars driving to the Israeli
town of Katzir, just inside the Green Line border with the West Bank, wounding two
Israelis.
The town is in the Wadi Ara area, a predominately Israeli Arab area close to
Palestinian villages in the West Bank. Police said footprints led from the site of the
attack to across the Green Line to a Palestinian town.
One of the wounded was in moderate to serious condition while the other sustained
light injuries.
The gunman apparently shot at cars heading toward the settlement from a water
tower.
Security forces end search for terrorists in northern attack
Security forces Wednesday ended their search for possible terrorists near Kibbutz
Metzuba, close to the border with Lebanon, after six Israelis were killed in the area
Tuesday. At least two gunmen fired on Israeli vehicles traveling close to the northern
border, between Kibbutz Metzuba and Shlomi. Israeli security forces killed the two
gunmen, who were dressed in IDF uniforms, but feared at least one terrorist was still
in the area.
The sixth victim of the attack has been identified as 29-year-old Alexei Kietman, from
Kibbutz Beit Hashita.
Lt. German Rozhkov, deputy commander of the Nahal company, was apparently
killed during the gunbattle with the Palestinian gunmen.
Lynne Livneh, 49, and her daughter Atara, 17, also killed in Tuesday's attack, were
laid to rest Wednesday afternoon at Kibbutz Hanita.
Seven other people were injured in the attack; two moderately and the rest lightly.
While the identity of the assailants is not yet known, it appears likely that they were
Palestinians from the West Bank and had not infiltrated from across the Lebanese
border. Qatari-based Al Jazeera, television station reported that the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the
attack.
In a statement, the group claimed that the gunmen were residents of a Palestinian
refugee camp in Lebanon and had crossed the border in order to avenge the Israeli
occupation. Israeli authorities, however, have so far found no signs of infiltration
from
across the border.
By Amos Harel and Amira Hass, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service, and
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