JENIN,
OCCUPIED West Bank, September 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) -
Two Palestinians were shot dead early Friday, September 6, in yet
another Israeli army incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian
security sources said, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The
first, Samir Kandil, 30, was a member of the Palestinian
security services. The second, Kamel Silawi, 25, was a member of the
Palestinian resistance group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed
offshoot of Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
The
latest Jenin murders brought the death toll since the start of the
second Palestinian Intifada against Israeli occupation in late
September 2000 to 2,490, including 1,837 Palestinians and 604
Israelis.
Overnight,
Israeli assault helicopters fired missiles at a Palestinian police station and a factory in the south of
the Gaza Strip overnight, AFP
quoted the sources as saying.
Three
Apache helicopters fired five missiles at the metal foundry in Khan
Yunes, a Palestinian
town in southern Gaza, the sources said.
A
police station near the factory was damaged in the attack, in which
one person was wounded.
An
Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raid which he said was
allegedly aimed at what he claimed was a "factory making
weapons."
The
Israeli attacks followed a day of clashes in which two Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
and two Israeli soldiers were killed and four wounded in the Gaza
Strip.
Meanwhile,
Marwan Barghuti, the top Palestinian
to be tried by Israel
since the beginning of the Intifada, rejected Israel's right to try him on alleged terrorism charges
in an uproarious court session.
Barghuti,
a Palestinian MP and the West Bank leader of Arafat's Fatah movement,
refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the Tel Aviv district court
on the grounds he is an elected member of parliament and rejected the
indictment read to him.
"I
am a freedom fighter, I am a member of parliament," said the
43-year-old Barghuti, who has become a hero of the Intifada for
Palestinians and was once tapped as a successor to Arafat.
The
court case continued to the backdrop of the rising death toll from
continued Israeli incursions and continued Palestinian resistance.
An
Israeli soldier was killed and three others wounded when their tank
ran over a powerful explosive charge in the southern Gaza Strip, the
army said in a statement.
The
blast occurred near the central Kissufim crossing point, on a track
used by units patrolling the security fence that seals the Gaza Strip
off from Israel,
and was claimed by the Popular Resistance Committees, which is made up
of former members of all the various resistance groups who have put
ideological differences aside to focus on military aspects of the
conflict.
Also
on Thursday, September 5, a fighter of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
was gunned down by Israeli occupation soldiers in the northern Gaza
Strip, Palestinian
medical sources said.
Israeli
tanks also staged two incursions in the Gaza Strip, moving into
autonomous territory in Deir al-Balah while the army destroyed four
houses in the southern town of Rafah and arrested three Palestinians
there, said AFP.
Violence
also flared in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since June.
Three
Palestinians were wounded, one critically, in clashes which erupted in
the northern West Bank city of Jenin when Israeli troops tried to
arrest freedom fighters, Palestinian
medical sources.
Eight
more Palestinian fighters, six of them from the Islamic resistance
group Hamas, were arrested in and around the northern West Bank city
of Nablus Thursday, in an offensive which saw an Israeli helicopter
open fire on a nearby Greek Orthodox convent, said AFP.
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