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Israeli Army Kills A Palestinian Boy, A Woman, Jordanian King Calls for Timetable
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| Mubarak is the second child, in three days period, killed by the Israeli army after Bassam Al-Saadi, 7, killed June 26, 2002. |
JENIN,
June 29 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A Palestinian boy and a
woman were killed by Israeli army
Saturday, June 29, 2002
. Meanwhile,
Jordan
's King Abdullah II warned that the
U.S.
must provide a reasonable timetable for establishing a Palestinian
state or face more violence in the region.
Muhamad
Ahmad Mubarak, 12, was killed by Israeli gunfire when troops entered
the al-Fara refugee camp just south of the
West Bank
town of
Jenin
, Palestinian medical sources told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
He
died after two Israeli tanks and a number of military vehicles rumbled
into the camp and began firing tear gas and live bullets at people who
were throwing stones, they said.
And
in the central Gaza Strip, Amina al-Loh, 31, bled to death after she
and her husband were shot by an Israeli patrol at dawn, as they drove
to their home near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, Palestinian
security sources said.
Elsewhere
in the
West Bank
,
Israel
said it arrested 45 Palestinians. Palestinian security sources said
Israeli troops had arrested 35 people during sweeps in the
village
of
Tammun
, near
Nablus
, and in Jenin, AFP said.
In
diplomatic circles,
Jordan
's King Abdullah II, a key
U.S.
ally in the region, warned in an interview in
Kuwait
's English-language Arab Times that
Washington
must draw up a reasonable timetable for establishing a Palestinian
state or face more violence in the region.
He
stressed that support for "a Palestinian state must be
accompanied by talk of a timetable," and warned that if the state
"is not established on Palestinian land within a reasonable
period of time and with the agreement of the concerned parties,
violence will continue."
He
also said he hoped
Syria
and
Lebanon
would be brought into the peace process to bring a
"comprehensive" peace to the region.
Israel
also captured territory from
Syria
in 1967, which it is still holding.
The
king also said the future of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was only
for the Palestinian people to decide. "It is a very serious
matter to let others think for peoples," he said.
Meanwhile,
in
Hebron
, Israeli troops were searching Saturday for the bodies of 15
Palestinian militants believed to be killed when they used tones of
explosives to destroy a Palestinian security building overnight.
The
massive three-store building, which also housed administrative
offices, had been under siege since Tuesday, June 25, 2002,when the
army seized Hebron, the latest of seven West Bank cities occupied in
its current military incursion.
Witnesses
said massive fireballs lit up the sky at about
midnight
as two huge explosions reduced the barracks-like building into rubble.
Israeli
army radio said 15 militants bunkered in the building had been
"killed" in the blasts, set off with about two tones of
explosives. However, an army spokesman said no bodies had yet been
found.
The
destruction of the
Hebron
"muqataa" was the latest in a long line of Israeli attacks
on Arafat's barely functioning government.
The
Israeli army reoccupied
Hebron
and six other key
West Bank
.
Senior
Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP he did not rule out the
possibility that "martyrs", or Palestinian victims, were
inside the
Hebron
building destroyed by the Israelis.
He
urged the international community to "assume its
responsibilities," and appealed to the Middle East Quartet
grouping the
United States
,
Russia
, the European Union and the United Nations to "intervene rapidly
and stop Israeli aggression."
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