From: wolfgang mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:25:13 +0200 (CEST) To: Wolfgang Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [pttp] Israeli forces were forced to leave Jenin, confrontations continued Israeli forces were forced to leave Jenin, confrontations continued Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/15/2001 http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010815/2001081513.html Amid more Israeli escalation, the Israeli forces broke into the city of Jenin amid people's resistance which resulted in an important victory embodied in deterring the invading Israeli forces. The Arab Intifada Teenagers clashes with the Israeli soldiers in several areas in Gaza and the West Bank. Detailed news reports said that Israeli tanks and bulldozers on Tuesday morning broke into the city of Jenin and destroyed a headquarter for the Palestinian police with the support of the Israeli helicopters which rocketed a second quarters for the Palestinian police and also inflected large damages in the neighboring villages. The Palestinians hurried to defend their city, using available weapons and also backed by members of the Palestinian police. This forced the Israeli invading forces to withdraw and the clashes resulted in wounding several citizens, four of them are from the Palestinian police. Col. Abu al-Fateh and other Palestinian officials said that the citizens, through loudspeakers called upon all to fight in defnse of their city, stressing that this is the first time the Israeli invading forces broke into the heart of a city falls under the Palestinian self- rule since the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada in September 2000. In a statement, the Palestinian Authority called for convening an urgent meeting for the UN Security Council and stressed that the government of Sharon has gotten completely apart from the peace process. For its part, the Palestinian resistance movement " Hamas" announced that the pullout of the of the Israeli forces from Jenin is but a new chain in the series of the Israeli defeats. It said in a statement that the incursion of the Israeli forces into Palestinian areas will cost it a lot and that it ( Hamas) will carry out more "suicide" operations adding that the Jerusalem operation on Thursday was the beginning to force Israel to evacuate. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces bombarded Bethlehem and Beit Jala cities and al-Ezza and Aida camps for the Palestinians and al-Khuder town and also confiscated houses in Beit Jala and converted them to military barracks after it expelled their citizens. The Israeli forces also confiscated the house of Dr. Samih Hassan in Jerusalem and converted it into a military check point and strong confrontation took part between the Arab citizens and the Israeli forces in Bethlehem, Toulkarem, Qalqilya and Jerusalem and also Hebron. Several Israeli soldiers and the armed Israeli settlers were wounded near Jeilo settlement, near Jerusalem. The Palestinian citizen Naser Abu Zeyadah from Qilindya was killed when he was exposed to the Israeli fire in Jerusalem. Also the Palestinian teenager Shadi Asfouri who was an activist in the Intifada was killed in an explosion near Nablus while the Palestinian policeman Hammad Breish was seriously wounded in Ramullah. The Israeli forces carried out a detention campaign in Bethlehem and Qalqilya. Copyright � 1995-2001 Arabic News.com, All Rights Reserved. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
