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Palestinian school children, waving school books and demanding the reopening of schools in Nablus.
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JENIN,
West Bank, September 18 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A
Palestinian resistance
fighter was killed and another wounded by Israeli soldiers near Jenin
in the northern West Bank early Wednesday, September 18, a Palestinian
security source said.
The
dead man was identified as Tarek Bsharat, 23, a member of the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Palestinian President Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah faction.
Ammad
Bani Owdeh, 22, a member of the same group, was injured and captured
by Israeli occupation troops. Both men also belonged to Force 17,
Arafat’s presidential guard, the source said.
The
mayor of the nearby town of Tulkarem, Bashar Bani Owedeh, told AFP
that the two Palestinians were in a car when the Israeli soldiers
attacked and then blew up their vehicle.
The
Israeli army demolished part of a low-cost housing project under
construction near this West Bank town Tuesday, September 17, sparking
furious complaints from the Palestinians.
Israeli
officials insisted the homes in the village of Ein Sinia were being
built without construction permits in an area under Israeli
administration.
“They
were building the structures in Area C. The demolition took place
after the completion of all the legal processes,” said Peter Lerner,
spokesman for the Israeli civil administration.
But
the chief coordinator of the Palestinian Workers’ Federation, Mahmud
Ziadeh, dismissed Israel’s pretext for the operation as “lies”,
insisting the 250-home project for poor workers lay within an area of
Palestinian administration.
Ziadeh
also insisted a full 34 homes were destroyed, not “15 half-built
structures” as Lerner said.
The
Israeli army regularly demolishes homes in the occupied territories
which it says have been built without authorization. But the
Palestinians complain that permits are rarely granted by the Israeli
administration.
In
continuous aggression, a Palestinian child was knocked over by an
Israeli taxi in the northern Gaza Strip as Israeli forces in the south
destroyed a Palestinian house, Palestinian security sources said
Tuesday.
The
10-year-old boy, who was run over by a taxi with Israeli plates close
to the Karni border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, was
said to be in moderate condition and is being treated in a local
hospital.
Following
the accident, the driver stopped for a few minutes then fled, the
sources said, adding that local residents were left to take the child
to hospital.
