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Palestinian Blows Himself up in Northern Israel, As Israeli Forces Reoccupy Tulkarem
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| Israel
feels insecure by second bombing in Afoula |
OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, May 20 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Palestinian
resistance fighter blew himself up in northern Israel early Monday,
May 20, killing no-one other than himself, Israeli police said.
They
said the Palestinian blew himself up at a police check point near the
town of Afoula by detonating explosives attached to his body, Agence
France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The
police said the man was believed to have come from the region near to
the ruined Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in the north of the West
Bank and blew himself up when he was stopped at a crossroads. The
sources said the man detonated the explosives as police approached.
The
attack comes after Sunday's operation in the Israeli coastal town of
Netanya which killed three Israelis and the bomber.
The
third person, who was not identified, died from injuries sustained
when the bomber, who police said was disguised in an Israeli army
uniform, blew himself up.
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| Afoula bomber
is said to come from an area near the devastated refugee camp
of Jenin |
In
a new toll given on Israeli public radio, which quoted hospital
sources, 21 people were said to be still in hospital with injuries
following that attack.
Sunday's
blast came after police were put on high alert in the north of the
country. It was the first such attack since a martyr operation in a
pool hall in Rishon Letsion, just south of Tel Aviv, on May 7 that
killed 16 people.
The
blast was condemned by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in an
Italian television interview broadcast Sunday.
He
told the RAI 3 public television station that he totally condemned
attacks against all Israeli civilians, but also those against
Palestinian civilians, and refugee camps and villages.
Meanwhile,
an Israeli infantry unit, backed by three tanks, entered early Monday
into the autonomous Palestinian town of Tulkarem in the West Bank,
Palestinian and Israeli security sources said, reported AFP.
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| Israeli tanks
reoccupied Tulkarem, imposing a cutrfew and opening haphazard
fire
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An
Israeli military spokesman claimed the soldiers had entered the town
in search of alleged terrorist suspects, but had then withdrawn, but
Palestinian sources said the incursion was continuing.
Ezeldine
Al-Sharif, Tulkarem’s mayor, said that the Israeli forces occupied
the town and its suburbs, enforced a curfew and opened haphazard fire
inside it, Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported.
Tulkarem
is situated around 12 kilometers from the Israeli town of Netanya to
the north of Tel Aviv.
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