"Israeli" troops kill 9 Palestinians in W. Bank and Gaza

Source: Al-Manar, 22-04-2007
Palestinian resistance groups retaliated on Sunday at "Israel`s" aggression in the West Bank and Gaza, where nine Palestinians including a 17-year old girl and a 17-year old boy have been killed over the weekend. The girl was identified as Boushra Naji al Wahsh and the boy as Karim Zahran.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad military wing, said it bombed an "Israeli" settlement east of the Breij refugee camp in the West Bank. For their part the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah`s military wing and the Quds Brigades said in separate statements that they bombed the settlement of Ashkelon and Sderot inside the so called Green Line in retaliation to the recent "Israeli" aggression.
Two Palestinian resistance fighters were killed Sunday at dawn in Nablus. The resistance was repelling an "Israeli" occupation incursion into the city and its surroundings. The martyrs were identified as Al-Aqsa Martyrs members Amin Labbadeh, 21 and Fadel Nour,22.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah condemned the "Israeli" killings and called on Arab leaders to back the Palestinian people and lift the blockade imposed on them.
For his part, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum urged Palestinians to be prepared for a new round of confrontation. "The blood of our people is not cheap," he said in a statement.
"Therefore we are calling on Hamas` armed wing and the Palestinian resistance groups to be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres."