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Tuesday, March 18, 2003 Adar2 14, 5763 Israel Time: 04:31 (GMT+2) 13 Palestinians killed, including toddler, two teens By Amos Harel and Arnon Regular Eleven Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl, were killed in two separate raids in the Gaza Strip yesterday, and another two died in a blast in the West Bank. Palestinians, meanwhile, fired five Qassam rockets at Sderot and other towns in the western Negev, hitting an empty bus in Sderot, but causing no injuries Seven of the deaths occured during a raid on the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. At around 3 A.M. yesterday, according to Palestinian sources, dozens of Israeli armored personnel carriers and tanks backed by helicopter gunships rolled into the camp from the direction of Netzarim to arrest Mohammed Sa'afin, a senior Islamic Jihad operative. Witnesses said Sa'afin took to the roof of his house after it was surrounded by Israeli forces. "Give up, think of your children," an Israeli officer shouted at him, according to witnesses. Sa'afin replied with pipe bombs and a volley of bullets from his Kalashnikov rifle and was shot dead. Two other Islamic Jihad activists who were with Sa'afin handed themselves over to troops. The IDF later destroyed Sa'afin's house. During the operation, another six Palestinians, including 2-year-old Elham al-Assar and two youths aged 13 and 14, were killed. (The other three Palestinians killed were armed.) "We were all squeezed into one room, hiding, because of the heavy fighting outside," said a relative. "Israeli tanks were near our house. Elham stood inside the house with her brothers and cousins. A single bullet penetrated the house and hit her in the chest." Security sources said Sa'afin was also a member of the Palestinian Authority's General Intelligence Apparatus. They said he was responsible for a number of terrorist operations, including a triple suicide bombing at the Katif Junction in February, in which four soldiers were wounded, and a car bombing in the same location last April, in which one soldier was wounded. In a separate IDF operation in the northern Gaza Strip near the town of Beit Lahiya, four Palestinians, including three Palestinian Naval Police officers, were killed in a fire fight, as all the camp's male residents aged 15-50 were rounded up for questioning. The fourth casualty was a 15-year-old Palestinian, who was apparently caught in the crossfire. In the village of Saida, north of Tul Karm, where an IDF soldier was killed last week in a clash with Islamic Jihad gunmen, two Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members were killed in an explosion at a warehouse. Palestinian sources said IDF troops were not in the area . In the Balata refugee camp next to Nablus, IDF troops arrested Palestinian legislator Hussam Khader. Security sources charge Khader directed and financed Tanzim terror in the Nablus area. Khader, a Fatah member, is the first lawmaker to be detained since last April, when Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was arrested. Khader has been an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat. Khader, saying that without a change in leadership the Palestinians will not be able to progress in peace negotiations. Recently, Khader claimed people within the PA were trying to get rid of him by disseminating false information to Israel. © Copyright 2003 Haaretz. All rights reserved <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
