A Palestinian fighter killed an Israeli border policeman in the Gaza Strip before being shot to death Saturday, AP reported. In the West Bank, a Palestinian teen was pulled from the rubble of Jenin refugee camp, where he had been trapped for days.
Rescue workers on Saturday pulled 17-year-old Sari Badi from the basement of a house where he was trapped for nine days. Badi said he was pinned by a wall that collapsed on his leg when the neighboring house was demolished, but was able to reach a jar of cheese, which he survived on.
"I couldn't believe I was going to live, I still can't believe it," he told The Associated Press at Jenin hospital, where he taken with light injuries.
So far, area hospitals have listed 43 bodies as having been retrieved from the camp. Of those, six were women, children or elderly men. The Palestinians say hundreds died, including civilians, when Israeli forces demolished more than 100 homes.
Gaza Attack
A lone Palestinian stormed a heavily fortified Israeli crossing point on the edge of the Gaza Strip, killing an Israeli border policeman with gunfire and grenades before he was killed by return fire from an Israeli tank.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, an armed group linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the assault and named the attacker as Ayman Jawdeh, of Gaza City.
In a funeral procession in Gaza City, hundreds of chanting Palestinians carried the black-draped coffins of two members of the Islamic Jihad killed in a gunbattle Friday with Israeli troops, in what Israel said was an attempt to stage a shooting attack on the settlement of Netzarim.
"Sharon should expect all doors of hell to break loose," vowed one masked Palestinian. "We are ready for martyrdom. But the occupation will never be safe on the land of historical Palestine, from the river to the sea," the man told the crowd.
These two dead were among seven Palestinians, including two children, killed by Israeli fire on Friday.
Overnight, a Palestinian intelligence source said about 25 Israeli tanks were seen pulling out of Ramallah, heading north toward an Israeli military base outside the city. But on Saturday the Israeli presence was undiminished. The military said there was only "regular military traffic," with no partial withdrawal.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, a Palestinian died Saturday when he detonated his bomb belt while stopped at an Israeli checkpoint at the eastern exit to the West Bank city of Qalqilyah, according to israeli media reports.
The Israeli soldiers stopped the man, labeling him as suspicious. No one other than the Palestinian was injured in this incident, reported Israel Radio. (Albawaba.com)
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