Hoda
Darwish was sitting in a classroom inside the U.N. Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA) elementary school in the town of Khan Yunis when the
bullets hit her in the head, the sources said, quoted by Agence
France-Presse (AFP).
Outside
the school, three other Palestinian youths were moderately injured by
gunfire when troops opened heavy machinegun fire from the army
observation post.
Palestinians
also paid their last respects to the 27-year-old Mohammed Elaloul
during his funeral in Gaza City earlier in the day after he died
Friday from wounds sustained during clashes with Israeli occupation
forces.
Also
Saturday, in and around the southern West Bank town of Al-Khalil
(Hebron), the occupation forces arrested three wanted Palestinians, an
army spokesman said.
Two
Palestinians were arrested in al-Khalil, and a third was picked up in
Bani Naim village just outside of the city, the spokesman said,
without saying what they were wanted for.
In
the meantime, Israeli occupation forces claimed discovering, in
southern Gaza, an explosive device weighing more than 100 kilograms
(220 pounds) on the fence between Khan Yunis and the Gush Qatif bloc
of Jewish settlements, according to an Israeli army spokesman, who
added it was detonated in a controlled explosion.
It
was the fourth such device weighing more than 100 kilograms discovered
in the Gaza Strip in the last two weeks, he said.
In
Tulkarem, the West Bank, a teenager was lightly wounded Friday by
gunfire when Israeli occupation forces fired towards a group of youths
hurling stones at them, medical and security sources said.
The
incident occurred as around 10 tanks and jeeps made a raid into the
town, security sources said, but an army spokesman denied the claim,
saying no operation was underway in the area.
At
around the same time, Israeli troops blew up a car in the village of
Anabta just outside of Tulkarem, Palestinian security sources said.
Claiming
that they feared the car was booby-trapped, Israeli forces blew up the
car in a controlled explosion, the source said, adding a search for
the four men was underway in the area.
"Bomb
Tel Aviv"
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Palestinians
protest both Israeli aggressions against their areas and U.S.
war threats to Iraq
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Fed
up with Israeli oppressive restrictions and U.S silence over them,
more than 5,000 Palestinians gathered in the Gaza Strip and West Bank
to demand that Arab leaders meeting in Egypt halt U.S. and British
plans to launch a war against Iraq and put an end to intensive Israeli
aggressions against their land.
In
Gaza City, some 2,000 people assembled carrying Palestinian, Iraqi and
green Islamist flags, and demanded that the Arab summit in Sharm
El-Sheikh do everything to prevent a war being launched against Iraq.
More
than 15 Arab leaders are now meeting the Egyptian Red Sea resort in an
effort to defuse the Iraq crisis and spare the region a second Gulf
War.
The
Palestinian protestors also called for a "defeat" of the
Israeli occupation of their lands.
In
Nablus, in the West Bank, some 3,000 Palestinians gathered and called
on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to "bomb Tel Aviv" if his
country is attacked.
The
demonstrators also burned U.S., British and Israeli flags.
Israeli
occupation forces have intensified their attacks against Israeli areas
at recent times, leaving all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip under
their control. They killed and wounded several civilians and detained
many others without charges.
Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat addressed the Arab League Summit through video
links from his besieged Ramallah presidential headquarters.
More
Israeli Plots in Lebanon
Israeli
destructive hands also stretched to Lebanon where a car bomb killed an
Egyptian Islamic resistance fighter and wounded two Palestinians in
the southern refugee camp of Ein El-Helwa.
The
leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement and residents of this camp
just outside the southern port of Sidon said an unmanned drone was
heard buzzing overhead shortly before the car exploded at 5:00 a.m.
(0300 GMT).
"According
to our investigations, the car bombing ... happened just as an Israeli
MK-type drone was flying over the camp at high altitude," Fatah
chief Khaled Aref said.
"The
booby-trapped car, a Mercedes, was packed with TNT mixed with nails to
cause as many victims as possible, and a detonator was discovered in
the remains of the car," he said.
The
dead man was identified as Abdel Sattar Al-Jad, known to camp
residents as Faruq al-Masri. Residents said he had lived in the camp
for 10 years and was a veteran of the Islamic resistance against the
Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The
two Palestinian casualties were with the Egyptian as he left the
camp's al-Nour mosque after attending dawn prayers.
Lebanon's
largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ain el-Helweh has been hit by dozens
of explosions since last August.
There
have been few casualties in the blasts, which camp leaders say are
intended to create a climate of tension in the camps which fall
outside the security control of the Lebanese army.
