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JERUSALEM, September 9 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Few hours
after Palestinian Premier-designate Ahmed Qorei urged an end of Israeli
aggressions before accepting the post, Israeli occupation forces killed
four Palestinians in two separate operations on Tuesday, September 9.
Israeli
troops pushed into the West Bank town of Al-Khalil (Hebron), killing
three Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy.
Two
bodies were recovered from an apartment block in the town besieged by
the Israeli army since the very morning on the pretext that Hamas
activists were holing up inside, Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The
identity of the pair was not immediately known, according to an Israeli
military source.
A
13-year-old Palestinian boy was earlier killed in the same operation
when Israeli tank shells hit an adjacent building.
Thaer
Al-Siouri died after being struck in the face by shrapnel, a spokesman
for the Al-Ahli hospital told AFP.
The
Israeli army started encircling the apartment at around 3:30 am (0030
GMT) and ordered all residents out, saying Hamas activists were inside.
Israeli
Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon claimed earlier that Hamas activists were
planning a "terror attack" in the near future.
Al-Khalil
Governor Aref el-Ghabri told Al-Jazeera television that Israeli forces
were now planting explosives around the building.
He
slammed the new Israeli operation as being part of the incessant
assassinations of Palestinian political and military leaders.
The
official maintained that security, for both Israelis and Palestinians,
would only be possible through the implementation of peace initiatives.
He
exhorted, in this respect, the United State and the European Union to
lay pressures on Israel to rein in its aggressions on the Palestinian
people.
In
a separate incident, an Israeli tank gunned down a Palestinian who was
suspected of planting a road-side bomb north of the Karni Terminal,
reported the Israeli Haarezt daily quoting the Israeli Army
Radio.
The
new Palestinian deaths bring the total death toll since the start of
Al-Aqsa Intifada some three years ago to 3,456, including 2,592
Palestinians and 803 Israelis.
Meanwhile,
the Israeli occupation army also announced the arrest of three wanted
Palestinians in the West Bank town of Nablus and two more in Ramallah.
In
Tulkarem, a Palestinian civilian was seriously wounded by Israeli
gunfire during an army incursion into the northern West Bank city,
Palestinian security and medical sources said.
The
unarmed man, 50, was struck by a shot aimed at young people throwing
Molotov cocktails at Israeli army vehicles, the sources said.
Several
Israeli tanks, jeeps and troop carriers had swept into the town, as the
occupation army was on a high state of alert Tuesday following threats
by Hamas to avenge a number of Israeli attacks on senior leaders of the
group in violation of a now defunct truce unilaterally declared by
Palestinian resistance factions on June 29.
