-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Saturday May 19 9:18 AM ET Israelis Fire Rockets on Stations By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli helicopters rocketed Palestinian security headquarters in two West Bank towns Saturday in a second day of air strikes to retaliate for a suicide bombing at an Israeli shopping mall. No one was killed in the raids, but three Palestinians were killed Saturday from what witnesses said was live Israeli army fire in three separate incidents. Sporadic clashes were reported throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The helicopter raids came a day after 12 Palestinians were killed in a warplane attack on Palestinian cities. Friday's attack was Israel's harshest response yet in eight months of fighting and marked the first time since the 1967 Mideast war that the Jewish state attacked Palestinian targets with warplanes. Yasser Arafat, arriving for an Arab League meeting in Cairo, told reporters that Palestinians would not back down. ``We will not give in. We will go on, God willing, until we pray together'' in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian leader said, referring to the Islamic shrine in east Jerusalem where Palestinians aspire to create the capital of their future state. On Saturday, helicopter gunships attacked security installations in the West Bank towns of Jenin and Tulkarem, witnesses said. The Jenin compound was hit by eight rockets, and black smoke rose into the sky. Some 30 people were injured in Tulkarem, one seriously. No one was hurt in the Jenin strike, which targeted offices of Arafat's elite guard, Force 17, and intelligence forces. The army said it struck ``terrorist targets'' that included command posts of Palestinian security forces. ``The army will continue to fight Palestinian terror, in every way and at any time that it will find appropriate,'' an army spokesman said in a news release. In Tulkarem, the air raid targeted three buildings, severely damaging them. The charred remains of seven police pickup trucks smoldered in the parking lot outside the security compound after the strike. One missile intended for Tulkarem fell from a helicopter into Israeli territory near the communal farm of Bahan, but no injuries were reported, military officials said on condition of anonymity. A Palestinian was killed Saturday in the West Bank town of Nablus when Israeli troops fired live rounds at some 700 protesters after the funerals for 11 Palestinians killed in an air strike on Friday, witnesses and doctors said. The army accused the Palestinians of firing live bullets and said it used only rubber bullets in the clash. Near Jenin, a Palestinian policeman manning a checkpoint was killed by assailants shooting from a passing car that then sped away in the direction of Israel, Palestinian officials said. The army said Israeli soldiers were on a mission and opened fire when three Palestinian policemen approached their vehicle. In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian farmer was killed by Israeli fire near the Karni crossing with Israel, Palestinian witnesses said. The army said soldiers shot a Palestinian carrying a weapon in his leg when he ignored warnings shots in the air. In the West Bank city of Ramallah, at least 12 Palestinians were injured in an exchange of fire after Israeli troops fired rubber bullets against demonstrators throwing stones following a funeral for one of the victims of Friday's air strike. Four mortar shells fell near the Jewish settlement of Gadid in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the army said. No injuries were reported. Israel has retaliated harshly for such shellings in the past. In all, 469 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and 84 on the Israeli side since fighting erupted in September. In Nablus, tens of thousands of Palestinians clamored for revenge on Saturday as they buried the 11 police officers killed a day earlier. ``A million martyrs will march toward Jerusalem,'' the crowd chanted as dozens of gunmen fired in the air. Others shouted for revenge. The procession was led by police pickup trucks carrying the flag-draped bodies of the victims, members of the Palestinian police whose compound was struck by two powerful rockets fired from F-16 warplanes. In all, 12 Palestinians were killed in Friday's attacks on Nablus and Ramallah. Warplanes also struck Palestinian coast guard offices and security installations in the Gaza Strip and in Tulkarem. An additional seven people were killed Friday: the Palestinian attacker and five Israelis in the suicide bombing in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya; and an Israeli motorist shot in a West Bank roadside ambush. In all, 72 Israelis and 65 Palestinians were wounded Friday. The Islamic resistance movement Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack in Netanya. Israel holds Arafat responsible for more than a dozen bombings that have killed 22 Israelis in the past eight months. Israel says Arafat's security forces have done nothing to stop militants behind the bombings. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Saturday that Israel was still striving for peace and had no choice but to respond to attacks. ``If there won't be an initiation, there won't be an Israeli attack,'' Peres said in a release. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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