“Israel” raids W. Bank and Gaza Strip

Source: alalam.ir, 17-09-2007
NABLUS, West Bank-"Israeli" occupation army stormed on Sunday into west bank and Gaza strip killing two Palestinian and wounding six others in two separate attacks.
Two Palestinians were martyred and six others injured by "Israeli" occupation soldiers in West Bank.
Yussef al-Hafi, 21, was killed in the Balata refugee camp near the city of Nablus, Palestinian security sources said. He belonged to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was seriously wounded by "Israeli" soldiers in Nablus, security sources said.
The "Israeli" army spokesman said troops had "fired at the gunman, wounding him.
Another Palestinian was killed near the flashpoint southern town of Hebron after an army patrol arrived to a spot where earlier two rival clans had exchanged gunfire, medics and the army said.
Palestinians on the scene hurled rocks at the soldiers, who opened fire, killing one of the men. An army spokesman said that the troops had opened fire at a Palestinian."
Elsewhere, eyewitnesses said "Israeli" tanks and vehicles entered through Sofa Crossing supported by airplanes, while an "Israeli" helicopter launched a missile at Moath bin Jabal Mosque in Al-Amour, injuring one person and causing great damage to the mosque itself.
"Israeli" forces executed an incursion early Sunday into northern Rafah and invaded Al-Amour area amid heavy fire.
"Israeli" bulldozers are destroying Palestinian farmland near the wall separating "Israeli" settlements from the area, they added, saying that special "Israeli" units broke into a number of Palestinian homes and arrested several people.
The incursion coincided with firing missiles at Yasser Arafat International Airport in southern Rafah, they said.
Sunday`s deaths bring to 5,861 the number of people killed since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP tally.
Palestinian relatives of Yussef al-Hafi mourn over his body during his funeral procession in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus.