08-26-2005, 12:58 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>5 Palestinians killed; rockets fired </b>
Reuters/ Tulkarm
Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in a West Bank raid and Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel on Thursday in renewed conflict after Jewish settlers were removed from some occupied territory.
The flareup, which included the fatal stabbing of a British Jew by a Palestinian in Jerusalem on Wednesday, was the first since Israel finished scrapping all 21 settlements in Gaza and four of 120 in the West Bank on Tuesday. A new spiral of violence would jeopardise a ceasefire that largely held as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon carried out his "Disengagement Plan" and make it harder to capitalise on the pullout by reviving Middle East peacemaking.
Troops who raided Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank overnight killed five militants in a gunbattle after they resisted arrest for suspected involvement in two suicide bombings in Israel this year, Israeli security sources said. Palestinian witnesses said three of the dead were unarmed teenagers and two were militants, one from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even after pullout they are still harassing Israel.
Reuters/ Tulkarm
Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in a West Bank raid and Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel on Thursday in renewed conflict after Jewish settlers were removed from some occupied territory.
The flareup, which included the fatal stabbing of a British Jew by a Palestinian in Jerusalem on Wednesday, was the first since Israel finished scrapping all 21 settlements in Gaza and four of 120 in the West Bank on Tuesday. A new spiral of violence would jeopardise a ceasefire that largely held as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon carried out his "Disengagement Plan" and make it harder to capitalise on the pullout by reviving Middle East peacemaking.
Troops who raided Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank overnight killed five militants in a gunbattle after they resisted arrest for suspected involvement in two suicide bombings in Israel this year, Israeli security sources said. Palestinian witnesses said three of the dead were unarmed teenagers and two were militants, one from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even after pullout they are still harassing Israel.