They
were killed near the Palestinian autonomous village of Bani Naim, not
far from a Jewish settlement, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP) adding
that Israeli state radio reported several Palestinians had been killed
by troops near a settlement in the Hebron region.
It
said the soldiers had opened fire on suspect shadows and that a bag
containing metal-cutters had been found near the bodies of the victims,
the agency said.
Meanwhile,
a Palestinian resistance activist was killed early Sunday during violent
exchanges of fire with the Israeli army in Jenin refugee camp, a
Palestinian security source said. Abdel Karim Bassam Sadi, 18, son of
the local chief of the Al Qods Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of
the resistance group, the Islamic Jihad, was shot in the chest.
Troops
backed by dozens of tanks and other armor entered the camp at dawn
Sunday, witnesses said.
The
Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that the Israeli forces
reoccupied the city of Qalqilya and that the forced entered the city
from different direction supported by tanks and armor. Israeli forces,
WAFA said, also entered in the west section of Rafah early Sunday, and
the occupation soldiers stationed in military surveillance towers on the
border between Rafah and Egypt, fired at the residents’ homes, but no
casualties were reported.
On
Saturday, August 31, Israeli forces assassinated a leader of the Al Qasa
Martyrs in Brigades in Nablus and killed four others, including two
children. Hours earlier, the forces abducted Hassan Yousef, a leading
member of the Islamic Resistance Group, Hamas, group at his hide-out in
the West Bank town of Ramallah, Palestinian security officials and
witnesses said, news agencies reported.
On
Thursday, August 29, a family picking grapes in their vineyard in Gaza,
became the victim of the Israeli forces “deadly darts” and were
killed on the spot after 3,000 of the inch-long flechettes packed in a
missile was thrown on the vineyard.
Four
members of the family were killed; Rueida al-Hajeen, 55, her sons
Ashraf, 22, and Nuhad, 17, as well as her nephew, Mohammad, 17,
according to Palestinian medics, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
