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Palestinian child, in Gaza, cries, so what?
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GAZA
CITY, Sept 7 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A top Palestinian
official Saturday, September 07, 2002, slammed an overnight raid by
some 40 tanks and armored personnel carriers as the "prelude for
a large-scale Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip."
"This
new Israeli escalation is torpedoing the efforts being made by the
international community, which must act with urgency to stop these
Israeli crimes and aggressions," a senior aide to Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat, Nabil Abu Rudeina, told Agence France-Presse
(AFP).
Palestinian
security officials said the Israeli troops demolished an office of
Arafat's main stream Fatah movement and an adjacent civil defense post
as well as the four metal foundries in Deir el-Balah town and refugee
camp, which together have a population of some 45,000 people.
Another
Israeli force also staged a brief dawn incursion into the northern
Gaza Strip during which they bulldozed the walls of a hotel in the
Beit Lahiya district, Palestinian officials said.
Six
Palestinians, four of them resistance activists, were abducted during
the raid which ended Saturday morning.
For
its part, the Israeli army claimed its troops discovered a
"powerful bomb" and four underground weapon workshops during
the raid into the central Deir el-Balah area of the Gaza Strip, which
came amid a security alert in Israel for the start of the Jewish New
Year holiday.
The
Israeli troops mounted the major incursion into the Gaza Strip
overnight amid tight security for the beginning of the Jewish New Year
holiday.
The
Israeli occupation army hailed the discovery of a large bomb and four
rocket-making factories in the raid into Deir el-Balah.
The
"powerful bomb" was found in offices of Arafat's mainstream
Fatah movement, the Israeli spokesman claimed, adding that groups
connected to Fatah were responsible for most anti-Israeli attacks in
the Deir el-Balah area.
"Army
sappers carried out a controlled explosion of the device after troops
had removed documents from the building," the spokesman added.
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Israeli
tanks spread terror among Palestinians
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The
raid came as Israeli troops went on maximum alert for the start of the
New Year holiday at sundown Friday, following the discovery of a
massive car bomb in northern Israel the previous day.
A
local leader of Islamic Jihad, Maher Bashir, and three other wanted
Palestinians were also arrested, the army spokesman said.
Palestinian
security officials said the Palestinians were picked up during
house-to-house searches in Deir el Balah town and refugee camp.
The
Israeli troops completed their operation and withdrew again Saturday
morning, the army spokesman said.
Another
Israeli force staged a brief dawn incursion into the northern Gaza
Strip during which they bulldozed the walls of a hotel in the Beit
Lahiya district, Palestinian security officials said.
The
Israeli army sharply stepped up its operations in the Gaza Strip since
two soldiers were killed and four wounded in the territory Thursday,
September 5.
On
Thursday night, three Apache helicopters fired five missiles at a
metal foundry in Khan Yunes in the southern Strip, wounding one person
and damaging an adjacent police station, in what the army described as
a raid against a weapons workshop.
Israeli
troops also effectively cut the Gaza Strip in three with the
reimposition of roadblocks at two key road junctions.
The
army has also been on maximum alert within Israel amid fears that
Palestinian activists will seek to mount a spectacular attack during
the Jewish New Year, similar to a devastating bombing which marred the
Passover holiday in March.
Troop
and police reinforcements were deployed in major cities and mobile
checkpoints set up. Particular attention was focused on synagogues,
holiday resorts and along the boundary with the West Bank.
On
Thursday, police intercepted a van laden with 600 kilos (1,300 pounds)
of explosives, driven into Israel from the West Bank.
Tel
Aviv newspapers said the vigilance of the security forces prevented
what could have been the deadliest attack in Israel's history.
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