A car exploded Wednesday in the occupied West Bank. The car exploded about 200 metres from an Israeli occupation military checkpoint, not far from the nortern West Bank village of Baqa al Sharqia. Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed credit for the attack. An activists told Israel ynet website said the car was activated by remote control when an Israeli jeeps passed nearby. Israeli soldiers were not hurt by the explosion, Israeli sources reported.
Also in the West Bank, two Israeli soldiers early Wednesday were injured by gunfire while trying to abduct a Hamas activist near the city of Hebron, Israeli sources reported. The Hamas man was taken by Israeli forces after he suffered gunshot wounds to the stomach.
Elsewhere, scores of Israeli tanks and bulldozers, backed by F16 jetfighters and Apache helicopters, stormed Wednesday morning the northern Gaza Strip, razing vast areas of arable land. Earlier on Tuesday, a Palestinian died of wounds in Rafah while a girl was shot in the head, witnesses and Palestinian security sources said.
According to WAFA, witnesses said Israeli forces deployed, amid intensive fire, in different parts of the Strip in the towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahya and the village of Um al-Nasser. They divided the Strip into several parts.
Palestinian sources said Israeli planed bombarded PA targets and at least 7 explosions were heard in the area. The building of Ministry of Social Affairs was destroyed and several buildings were damaged, reports said.
The Israeli bulldozers have destroyed the main water pipe of Um al-Nasser village and damaged the electric and telecommunications networks. The bulldozers razed vast areas of arable lands in the eastern and northern parts of the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
In the city of Rafah, an 18-year-old Palestinian, Youssef Abu Libda, died of wounds he sustained in May after having been wounded during the Israeli attack on a peaceful rallymedical sources said.
In the meantime, Israeli troops critically wounded a girl while she was sitting at her class in UNRWA school in Khan Younis Refugee Camp, south of Gaza, medical sources and witnesses said. Nasser Hospital sources, in Khan Younis, said that Raghda al-Assar 11, was critically wounded in the right side of her head.
Peter Hansen, UNRWA commissioner general, said in a press release that the indiscriminate firing of live bullets into the refugee camp was “unacceptable”. He pointed out that his Agency would strongly protest the incident with the Israeli occupation authorities.
Meanwhile, Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, announced Wednesday that 21 Qassam missiles and mortar shells were fired Tuesday at settlements in the Gaza Strip and at Sderot in the 1948 occupied lands. Several rockets were also fired from Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
(albawaba.com)
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