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Palestinian
Resistance Destroys 8 Israeli Tanks
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Israeli tank drives along the road to attack the West Bank
town of Nablus |
NABLUS,
West Bank, April 4 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Palestinian
resistance activists destroyed eight Israeli tanks as occupation
forces escalated its ferocious attack on the northern West Bank cities
of Jenin and Nablus Thursday, April 4.
Israeli
helicopters aggressively attacked Jenin and its refugee camp after an
Israeli occupation soldier was killed and six wounded Thursday in
retaliation to an earlier killing of five Palestinians in the refugee
camp.
The
Israeli attacks were aimed at the Jenin hospital whereby all the
medical equipments were completely destroyed. Eight Palestinian houses
were also destroyed during the attack.
At
least ten Palestinians fell martyr and many more were injured during
the Israeli attacks on Jenin.
A
13-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead Wednesday, April 3, by
Israeli occupation forces in the Jenin refugee camp on the northern
West Bank, hospital sources said.
They
said the youth, identified as Mohammed Hawashen, was hit by three
bullets as he was standing in front of his home in the refugee camp
outside the town of Jenin, occupied by Israeli occupation troops
overnight.
The
death raised to at least five the number of Palestinians killed since
Israeli occupation forces poured into the camp early Wednesday during
their aggressive sweep through the West Bank.
They
were named as Ziad Zubeid, 35, and Jawed Msharqah, 22, both members of
the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an offshoot of Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. The other, two who died earlier
Wednesday were Abu Rmilh, aged 20, and Fadwa Jamal, 27, a nurse in the
refugee camp. Her sister Rufidh was also seriously wounded.
According
to the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, fierce resistance was reported
to have destroyed 8 Israeli tanks in the refugee camps of the New Kesr
and the Old Kesr.
More
than 100 Israeli tanks, backed by helicopter gunships, blasted their
way late Wednesday into Nablus, the sixth major target in their drive
to crush Palestinian resistance on the West Bank. Heavy armored units
also moved into the refugee camps of Balata and Al-Asker, the
Palestinians said.
Two
unarmed Palestinians fell martyrs and nine others were injured during
Israel’s attack on Nablus and its camps.
IslamOnline’s
correspondent in the occupied territories said that the role of the
national resistance is now more eminent whereby Palestinian youth in
Nablus have divided themselves into groups and planted explosive
devices in the main streets of the city.
In
a phone interview, one of the resistance activists told
IslamOnline’s correspondent that the entire Palestinian population
is now united in one front against the Israeli aggressors.
Another
resistance activist from Hamas, Gamal Abu al-Heiga, told IslamOnline
that there is currently fierce resistance on the part of men, women
and children in the refugee camp. “The Jenin refugee camp is now
called the camp of victory because it is from here that the victory
will come if God wills,” Heiga added.
However,
he warned that they are bout to run out of ammunition due to the
continuous Israeli attacks. Heiga called upon the Arab and Muslim
nation to take action and defend Jerusalem.
According
to the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel, a Palestinian
resistance activist called Abu-Jandal said that it is due to the high
morale of the Palestinian people who prefer to fight back or fall
martyrs that the resistance has elevated and its seeds are now
tangible.
Only
Khalil (Hebron) in the south and Jericho in the east remain untouched
by the blitz launched last Friday with an Israeli siege of Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat's headquarters in the central city of
Ramallah.
As
Israel pressed its biggest drive on the West Bank since the 1967
Middle East war, an occupation army spokesman said some 1,100
Palestinians had been abducted in recent days.
By
Thursday, the seventh day of Israel's ferocious military operation,
the occupation army had reoccupied the Palestinian towns of Bethlehem,
Ramallah, Beit Jala, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Nablus, and Salfit. 
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