Israeli forces kept Monday a tight grip on Palestinian-ruled cities in the West Bank. Witnesses said three Israeli tanks and a bulldozer entered the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip early on Monday and demolished seven houses.
They fired shells and Israeli troops exchanged fire with Palestinians. Hospital sources said a gunman and a civilian were wounded.
An Israeli soldier was lightly injured Monday morning after an explosive device placed along the Egyptian-Israeli border detonated near an israeli patrol. Soldiers opened fire on the spot they believed the device was detonated from and the soldier was evacuated for medical treatment.
An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by troops on Sunday during a stone-throwing protest in the Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem died on Monday, hospital sources said.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers, enforcing a continued curfew in Nablus, arrested a Palestinian woman suspected of planning a suicide bombing and seized a wanted Hamas member, Israeli press reports maintained Monday.
Israeli troops also entered Salfit town south of Nablus overnight and arrested Anan Hashash, 28, a senior activist in the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian security officials said. Soldiers were searching homes and detaining some residents, they said.
Israeli troops earlier entered 10 villages near the central West Bank city of Ramallah and began searching for weapons, explosives and suspected activists, in what Palestinians said appeared an expansion of the military reoccupation of the Ramallah area. (Albawaba.com)
