An Israeli soldier was wounded Sunday when an explosive device went off near the Israeli army camp of Eibal, near the West Bank city of Nablus, reported the official Kuwaiti news agency (KUNA), citing Israel Radio.
The radio said that following the explosion, armed Palestinians opened fire at a passing Israeli army patrol, but reported no injuries.
The Eibal camp is one of the largest Israeli military bases.
It is equipped with the most sophisticated weapons, including Patriot missiles and highly sensitive radar systems.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian reported by Israelis to have been injured in a suicide attack in the Gaza Strip on Sunday was in fact the target of an assassination attempt by Israeli forces, according to the Palestine information center (PIC).
The center blasted Israeli claims that a "Palestinian launched an attempted suicide bomb attack against Israeli soldiers in Gaze, seriously injuring himself but causing no casualties among the Israelis."
But the center quoted a radio Israel report saying later that "Israeli forces opened fire at a Palestinian on his way out of his Gaza village, Dahaniye," without referring to the claimed "cart filled with explosives."
Meanwhile, Haaretz newspaper reported that a Jewish settler was lightly injured when he was shot near the west bank settlement of Shavei Shomron.
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, CNN reports that Palestinians have killed approximately 112 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and 458 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made apache helicopter gunships and f-16s.
According to amnesty international, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times book review article is "arguably the most important intellectual alive," has been quoted as saying: "state terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it." - Albawaba.com
