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Palestinians inspect the rubble of a Gaza metal workshop bombed by Israeli helicopters
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JENIN,
West Bank
, November 16 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Israeli occupation
forces on Saturday, November 16, killed a Palestinian teenager in the
West Bank
town of
Jenin
and a Palestinian woman in
Nablus
.
Ibrahim
Saaadi, 18, was killed shortly after about ten Israeli tanks and
military vehicles stormed Jenin and its neighboring refugee camp at
around
7.30 am
(0430 GMT), a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad told Agence
France-Presse (AFP).
The
teen was the son of the group's regional leader Basaam Saadi, he said,
adding that clashes were continuing in the camp and the city.
An
Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that a Palestinian had been
shot dead in the camp, claiming that Israeli troops noticed three
armed men and opened fire on them, killing one.
But
she denied it had occurred during a reentry of troops to the northern
West Bank
city and its camp.
"This
was a regular patrol force. Such patrols have never stopped (since the
army pulled back)," she said.
Meanwhile,
a 21-year-old Palestinian woman was killed inside her house when an
Israeli tank opened fire with heavy machine guns Saturday in the
northern
West Bank
city of
Nablus
, Palestinian medical sources said.
Samar
Sharaab died instantly after being hit in the neck, the sources said.
Residents
in the area said the curfew was fully enforced on army-reoccupied
Nablus
and that no incident was taking place at the time of the shooting.
Also,
two Israeli helicopter gunships carried out a raid on central
Gaza
City
early Saturday, destroying a metal workshop and injuring two
Palestinians, Palestinian security sources said.
Five
rockets were fired at the building, which housed the metal workshop
and a goldsmith's workshop, completely destroying it and causing
damage to 10 nearby houses in the central industrial area, they said.
Both
of the injured men, including a Palestinian policeman, were hit by
shrapnel from the missiles, they said.
An
Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the attack, claiming the workshop
was used for manufacturing weapons.
"Within
the framework of the fight against terror and the recent shooting
attacks against Israeli communities (settlements), air force
helicopters attacked a workshop for creating all kinds of weapons in
Gaza
City
," she alleged.
The
building had been used by "many different terror organizations to
make different weapons including mortar shells and Qassam
rockets", she claimed.
The
Israeli military has often charged that such workshops are used by
Palestinian (resistance) groups to produce a variety of weapons,
including crude missiles, used in attacks on Jewish settlements,
troops or even
Israel
itself.
Israeli
authorities warned that the shooting attack in the southern
West Bank
town of
Al Khalil
(
Hebron
), in which 12 Israelis were killed, ruled out the possibility of any
talks with the Palestinian leadership.
"No
political process can take root while these atrocities continue to be
carried out by Palestinian terrorists," Israeli Foreign Ministry
spokesman Gilad Millo told AFP.
Friday's
attack was claimed by the Islamic Jihad, whose Jenin leader Iyad
Sawalha was assassinated by the Israeli army a week ago at the end of
a two-week sweep of the northern
West Bank
city.
Millo
placed the blame for the latest killings squarely on Yasser Arafat's
Palestinian Authority.
"We
blame the Palestinian Authority for not doing its job; we don't blame
the Palestinian people, but those who continue a strategy of
terrorism," he claimed.
The
Israeli army set up a new checkpoint just outside Arafat's compound in
the
West Bank
town of
Ramallah
, three hours after the Al Khalil shooting.
Al
Khalil is the scene of frequent clashes between Jewish settlers and
the Palestinian population.
Some
600 radical Jewish settlers live there among 120,000 Palestinians.
Israeli
troops, which have reoccupied most of the
West Bank
since June, pulled back from the Palestinian autonomous area in Al
Kahlil except for two strategic hillsides on October 25.
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