pertempuran Palestina menghasilkan 7 orang tewas, perlu dicegah. Perlu ada usaha utk mengajak kembali ke dialog dan masalah ke pengadilan internasional.
wassalam, --------------------------------------------- Fighting in Gaza Town Leaves 7 Dead BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops backed by helicopters and armored bulldozers battled Palestinian gunmen in this northern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town Thursday. At least seven Palestinians were killed, including the local commander of the Hamas militant group, Palestinians and the army said. In the southern Gaza Strip, Islamic militants fired a missile at an Israeli jeep, wounding five soldiers, including two senior officers. The militant Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, saying it was avenging the "ugly Zionist massacre" in Beit Hanoun. It distributed a videotape showing an explosion near the jeep and the jeep on fire. The army responded by opening fire in the nearby Rafah refugee camp. Palestinian hospital officials said five people were injured, including a 4-year-old girl with a critical head wound. The army had no comment. In Beit Hanoun, Palestinian gunmen took to the streets under fire from Israeli snipers and helicopter machine-guns. Armored Israeli bulldozers also destroyed olive and orange groves and razed land along the eastern side of Beit Hanoun. The fighting left about half the town without water and power for a third day, officials said. The army invaded the area early last week to stop militants from firing homemade rockets into Israel. The troops had remained on the outskirts of town before Thursday. Col. Avi Levy, commander of the operation, said militants were using the orchards as cover. "We are taking over the same areas that they use to fire from," Levy said. Five militants, including Hamas commander Nahed Abu Ouda, were killed, Palestinian officials said. A middle-aged man and a 35-year- old woman also died. One Israeli soldier was seriously wounded, the army said. The army said it had killed or hit at least eight Palestinians. Palestinian witnesses reported that there were dead and wounded lying in the streets of Beit Hanoun, but they could not be evacuated because of the fierce fighting. "We are in a real battlefield. Shooting is coming from all directions and I saw two people fall wounded in front of my house," said Ramadan Zaneen, 42, a farmer. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) appealed to the United Nations (news - web sites) to halt Israel's operation. "I say to the world, there has been enough silence," Arafat said from his West Bank headquarters. The army raided Beit Hanoun last week after militants fired a barrage of homemade rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot, killing two people, including a 3-year-old boy. The deaths were the first in a Palestinian rocket attack from Gaza since fighting erupted nearly four years ago. Palestinian militants and the army said the homemade rockets had been upgraded to make them deadlier. The new weapon could threaten Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s plan to withdraw from Gaza. Hard-line critics say an evacuation of the coastal area would put more Israeli population centers in range of the inaccurate, but deadly rockets. Meanwhile, Israeli armored vehicles and bulldozers raided the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza early Thursday, partially or completely destroying 30 houses and wounding at least four Palestinians. The army said the operation was aimed at destroying abandoned buildings used by militants to fire mortars and other weapons at Israeli targets. Violence has surged in the Gaza Strip since Sharon announced plans to evacuate all Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements next year. Israel and Palestinian militants are vying to make the pullout look like a victory. Also Thursday, officials said Sharon has decided to fire a Cabinet minister who was heard in a taped conversation planning to frame a fellow minister. 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