Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian man killed Friday near Gaza .

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, June 21 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The Israeli occupation forces shot dead nine Palestinian citizens, including five children, Friday, June 21, while Israeli settlers shot dead a 10th, as the Israeli army reoccupied the West Bank.

Five Palestinians, four of them children, were killed as Israeli troops invaded rubble-reduced Jenin, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Jenin is the site of the worst massacre of Palestinians throughout the 21-month-old Intifada, when the Israeli forces launched a deadly incursion that left hundreds of Palestinians killed and wounded, and dozens of homes demolished.

Israeli forces also killed four Palestinians in Gaza Friday, as the army poured into the West Bank town of Nablus, AFP added.

Meanwhile, Jewish settlers shot dead a Palestinian young man in the northern West Bank village of Huwara south of Nablus Friday.

Adnan Odeh, 22, was hit in the chest and died instantly, AFP reported.

The settlers also set fire to several shops in Huwara, AFP added.

Israeli tanks earlier raked Jenin downtown with shells. Some struck about a kilometer (less than a mile) to the north, killing four Palestinians, medical sources said.

The Israeli occupation army killed 4 Palestinian children Friday.

Pre-dawn, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and five members of his family wounded in Jenin when Israeli soldiers blew up a house close to their own, a Palestinian hospital source said.

The Nablus reoccupation was part of Israel's new policy of grabbing Palestinian land in retaliation for recent resistance attacks. The army is already occupying five other West Bank towns: Jenin, Qalqilya, Beitunia near Ramallah, Bethlehem and Tulkarem.

The move on Nablus was followed by a skirmish in the Gaza Strip, when border guards killed three Palestinians near the Erez crossing point into Israel.

A Palestinian boy died after being hit in the chest by Israeli heavy machine-gun fire that strafed his house south of Gaza City.

Sharon, frustrated by the inability of the region's mightiest army to stem Palestinian martyr attacks, vowed to seize and hold more Palestinian territory.

"The regular army is stretched to its limits," said the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot.

On the international scene, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the European Union would stress the need for a new political initiative in the Middle East during a Friday-Saturday summit in the Spanish city of Seville, AFP said.

"The message from the Europeans will be that we need a new political push, which might be an international conference or something else," Solana said.

"What form this takes is not that important," he said. "The important thing is that there be a political push, a perspective for getting out of the terrible situation in which we are now."

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer acknowledged that Palestinian suicide bombers were motivated in part by "misery and frustration", in an interview published by the Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz.

In the last three days, three Palestinian resistance attacks have killed 31 Israelis, as well as two soldiers, who were killed in fighting in the West Bank.

Although the cycle of violence has stalled a U.S. peace initiative, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat issued a call for "no more war" and said he believed he could reach a peace agreement with hardliner Sharon, said AFP.

In an interview with Haaretz, Arafat said that "enough is enough" and that he now accepted a framework for peace first made by former U.S. president Bill Clinton.

Arafat called late Wednesday, June 19, for a "complete halt" to all attacks on Israeli civilians, and the U.S. State Department took a somewhat positive line on his statement, describing it as "is a step in the right direction”.

However, Bush, trying to finalize a peace strategy built around the declaration of a Palestinian state, would not be making any immediate announcement on his blueprint to end the conflict, the White House said.

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