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About 40 tanks and armored cars, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed Gaza late Sunday night
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With
Additional Reporting By Ashraf Salfiti, IOL Palestine Correspondent
GAZA
CITY, September 9 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation
forces clashed with Palestinian resistance fighters during a major
overnight incursion into a Palestinian autonomous zone in the Gaza
Strip, leaving 10 people injured, as two Palestinians were killed
elsewhere in Gaza, Palestinian security sources said Monday, September
9.
About
40 tanks and armored cars, accompanied by bulldozers, moved several
kilometers (miles) into a Palestinian autonomous zone near the refugee
camps of Bureij and Nuseirat from two directions late Sunday, September
8, with sporadic gunfire heard from near the Nuseirat camp, reported
Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Ten
other Palestinians were hurt in exchanges of fire during the overnight
incursion, before the Israeli forces pulled out after some three hours.
During that time the Israeli troops destroyed the home of Mahmud
Nashabak, a local official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed
resistance offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah
movement.
Nashabak,
who was not at home, is wanted by Israeli security services over
anti-Israeli attacks.
The
army also destroyed a two-storey building housing a metal workshop, AFP
reported.
In
the two refugee camps, calls to resist the incursion were made to
residents over loud speakers from the mosques.
In
the south of the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli
army gunfire late Sunday near the Sufa checkpoint that leads to Israel,
Palestinian security sources said, adding that the bodies of the two
unidentified Palestinians were in a sector under Israeli control.
The Israeli army confirmed that an armed incident had taken place near
the Sufa checkpoint. "Troops noticed two suspects who were
trying to climb the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel,"
the army claimed.
The
latest deaths bring the toll two since the start of the Palestinian
Intifada against Israeli occupation to 2,492, the overwhelming majority
of them Palestinians.
Earlier Sunday night, Israeli tanks, armored cars and bulldozers entered
the central Gaza Strip area of Deir el-Balah, where the army had staged
an overnight raid two days ago, Palestinian security sources said.
They
said the vehicles penetrated several hundred meters (yards) into the
Palestinian autonomous zone. The tanks opened fire, destroying an
electric generator that supplied the region.
An Israeli army spokesman confirmed that incursion, which he described
as a "targeted" operation.
Meanwhile,
a large explosion rocked the center of a Jewish settlement in
Al-Khalil, south of the West Bank. A spokesman for the Israeli army said
Sunday: "Our soldiers found traces of explosives, but not
casualties were reported."
The
Israeli army had increased security procedures and imposed a curfew on
all Palestinian cities it occupies in the West Bank and Gaza, to avoid
any resistance operation being carried out during the Jewish New Year
celebrations which started Friday, September 6, and ended Sunday,
September 8.
An
Israeli security source said Israeli forces thwarted a number of
operations against Israeli targets but warned of more. He also said that
the Israeli Minister of Defense met with police, army and general
security chiefs, and they announced a state of alert during the days of
the feast.
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