SeanAshi
07-06-2004, 01:23 AM
An Israel Defense Forces officer in the elite naval commando unit was killed early Tuesday and three other soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in a gun battle with wanted Palestinian militants in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, the IDF said.
Four Palestinians - two militants and two civilians - were killed in the shooutout and a subsequent Israeli missile strike, Palestinians sources told Israel Radio.
The shootout erupted after the soldiers surrounded the four-story building in which the militants were hiding, in a bid to arrest senior militants in the Ein Beit-Ilma refugee camp, according to Israeli radio reports. An Israeli helicopter then fired a missile at the building.
Palestinians identified the two militants killed as Yaman Faraj and Amad Militats, the commander of the military wing of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine and his deputy. The two civilians were identified as an academic from An Najah University, Dr. Khaled Saleh - who has American citizenship, according to Israel Radio - and his son Mohammed, 16.
The two wanted men were responsible for a number of suicide attacks in which Israeli civilians were killed, Army Radio reported.
Palestinian teen said killed in Gaza
In the Gaza Strip, IDF troops shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy late Monday, shortly after an Israeli man was wounded by mortar fire at the nearby settlement of Neveh Dekalim, Palestinian officials and medics said.
Palestinian security officials said the teenager, Ala al-Shaer, was shot dead as he stood in a street in the Khan Yunis refugee camp.
IDF troops backed by tanks and helicopters launched a raid in south Gaza early Tuesday, seeking tunnels used by Palestinian militants to smuggle weapons from Egypt, witnesses and a military source said.
According to witnesses, 12 tanks penetrated about 150 meters into the Rafah refugee camp, about an hour after some 20 had massed along the Philadelphi corridor on Gaza's southern edge with Egypt.
An IDF source said the troops had launched a "routine raid for weapons tunnels."
A total of three mortar shells were fired into Neveh Dekalim on Monday evening and damage was also caused to a number of homes and vehicles.
The settlement's security coordinator, Ilan Terteks, 33, was wounded in the chest by mortar fragments after he heard an explosion from the first mortar shell and ran to the scene.
Since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000, more than 4,000 mortar shells have been fired at settlements in Gaza's Gush Katif bloc.
In a separate incident, Palestinians in northern Gaza fired a Qassam rocket at Israel that fell short of its mark and hit a Palestinian home in the Jabalya refugee camp. A number of residents were lightly wounded by the rocket.
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Four Palestinians - two militants and two civilians - were killed in the shooutout and a subsequent Israeli missile strike, Palestinians sources told Israel Radio.
The shootout erupted after the soldiers surrounded the four-story building in which the militants were hiding, in a bid to arrest senior militants in the Ein Beit-Ilma refugee camp, according to Israeli radio reports. An Israeli helicopter then fired a missile at the building.
Palestinians identified the two militants killed as Yaman Faraj and Amad Militats, the commander of the military wing of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine and his deputy. The two civilians were identified as an academic from An Najah University, Dr. Khaled Saleh - who has American citizenship, according to Israel Radio - and his son Mohammed, 16.
The two wanted men were responsible for a number of suicide attacks in which Israeli civilians were killed, Army Radio reported.
Palestinian teen said killed in Gaza
In the Gaza Strip, IDF troops shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy late Monday, shortly after an Israeli man was wounded by mortar fire at the nearby settlement of Neveh Dekalim, Palestinian officials and medics said.
Palestinian security officials said the teenager, Ala al-Shaer, was shot dead as he stood in a street in the Khan Yunis refugee camp.
IDF troops backed by tanks and helicopters launched a raid in south Gaza early Tuesday, seeking tunnels used by Palestinian militants to smuggle weapons from Egypt, witnesses and a military source said.
According to witnesses, 12 tanks penetrated about 150 meters into the Rafah refugee camp, about an hour after some 20 had massed along the Philadelphi corridor on Gaza's southern edge with Egypt.
An IDF source said the troops had launched a "routine raid for weapons tunnels."
A total of three mortar shells were fired into Neveh Dekalim on Monday evening and damage was also caused to a number of homes and vehicles.
The settlement's security coordinator, Ilan Terteks, 33, was wounded in the chest by mortar fragments after he heard an explosion from the first mortar shell and ran to the scene.
Since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000, more than 4,000 mortar shells have been fired at settlements in Gaza's Gush Katif bloc.
In a separate incident, Palestinians in northern Gaza fired a Qassam rocket at Israel that fell short of its mark and hit a Palestinian home in the Jabalya refugee camp. A number of residents were lightly wounded by the rocket.
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