Several Palestinians were wounded Monday during clashes with Israeli troops who made a sortie into a Palestinian-controlled area of Hebron, reported the Palestinian news agency, WAFA.
It was second such incursion in three days.
The Israeli forces destroyed five Palestinian positions in the flashpoint West Bank city before withdrawing, said WAFA.
The posts were run by the Palestinian's elite Force 17, said Haaretz newspaper, adding that nine people were wounded.
The incursion followed several hours of gunfire by Palestinians aimed at nearby Jewish settlements, according to the paper.
Since the September 2000 eruption of the latest Palestinian uprising against 34 years of Israeli military occupation, the media has reported that Palestinians have killed over 123 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 the UK newspaper The Guardian, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and 510 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s.
According to an Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children. In addition, the Palestine 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
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