Ten Palestinians have died in 12 hours at the hands of the Israeli army during a weekend of violence in the West Bank.
Four were shot dead early on Sunday near a Jewish settlement outside Hebron, and another was killed in the Jenin refugee camp.
The other five, including two children, died when Israel carried out a helicopter missile attack on a car carrying an alleged member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades on Saturday.
“It’s a dangerous escalation, and the Israeli Government is completely responsible for this massacre,” said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after the Hebron shootings.
An Israeli Government spokesman said that operations had been intended to prevent future attacks. ( Minority Report the israelis can now see into the future people)
“We are seeing non-stop efforts to kill Israelis everywhere,” said Raanan Gissin. “The only reason there is not more bloodshed is that we are always pre-empting, day and night.”
Troops near the Kiryat Arba settlement shot dead the four Palestinians. They were carrying wire cutters and a saw, but no weapons.
Sunday morning’s violence came after the deaths of five people, including two children, in an attack which Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat called a “brutal act of murder”.
The Apache helicopter fired two missiles at the car near the Palestinian town of Tubas, about 20km (13 miles) from Jenin.
The man apparently targeted, 29-year-old Rafat Daraghmeh, was reportedly a member of the al-Aqsa Matryrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah party.
He and two others in the car were killed, and a fourth was wounded.
But when another missile hit a nearby building, two children were killed and another six people injured, including a seven-year-old boy whose condition is now said to be critical.
The nazi style terrorists of israel continue there cruel and brutal slaughter of civilians in occupied palestine!