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Palestinian
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GAZA
CITY, April 19 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - A Palestinian
was killed and dozens injured late Saturday, April 19, during an
incursion by Israeli troops into the town of Rafah in the southern
Gaza Strip, Palestinian security and medical sources confirmed.
Ali
Mussa, director of the Rafah hospital, said the body of an
unidentified Palestinian had been brought there.
Dozens
of Palestinians wounded by Israeli gunfire had also been admitted, he
told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
More
than 30 Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and troop carriers drove into
the center of Rafah, covered by helicopter gunships, security forces
said.
Israeli
Army Storm Jenin
In
a related development, Israeli army troops staged a raid Saturday into
the autonomous northern West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian security
sources said.
Israeli
soldiers, who entered the town in about 20 armored vehicles, fired
warning shots using rubber bullets and ordered residents to respect a
curfew in the town, the sources said.
The
incursion came hours after a Palestinian television cameraman
was killed by Israeli gunfire as he filmed clashes in nearby Nablus.
Nazeh
Darwazi, 42, a journalist for both Palestinian television and the U.S.
Associated Press Television Network, was shot dead in the central
Casbah district according to Bilal Bana, a Palestinian reporter with
him at the time.
Eighteen
Palestinians were also injured, the sources said.
Meanwhile,
the Israeli army said that since the Jewish festival of Passover began
late Wednesday it had arrested at least nine Palestinians who
allegedly had either planned or sought to carry out anti-Israel
attacks.
A
curfew was imposed on Jenin and nearby Tulkarem early Wednesday ahead
of the week-long festival, and the Israeli army completely sealed
off the Palestinian territories for the entire period.
Israeli
troops Abduct Activist
Israeli
troops abducted a Palestinian resistance fighter from the Islamic
Jihad group who it said had been primed to carry out an attack during
the Jewish festival of Passover.
Amer
Ahmed Mohamed Mabruk, 22, was abducted in the northern West Bank town
of Tulkarem along with four other members of the resistance group,
including a woman who allegedly intended to carry out a martyr attack,
Israeli public radio quoted an army spokeswoman as saying.
A
suitcase filled with explosives and nails intended for use in the
attack was discovered near the city of Nablus and disarmed by an
Israeli bomb disposal unit, the spokeswoman said.
Three
Israelis were wounded late Saturday by gunfire after at least one
Palestinian resistance fighter infiltrated a Jewish settlement in the
northern West Bank, an Israeli military source said.
