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Israeli soldiers die in Jenin ambush
April 9, 2002 Posted: 8:36 PM EDT (0036 GMT)
JENIN, West Bank (CNN) –
An ambush
attack killed 13 Israeli
soldiers
Tuesday in what Israel
Defense Forces
called the highest single
military death
toll since the current
wave of
Israeli-Palestinian
fighting began 18
months ago.
The deaths occurred when a
bomber
detonated himself in an
alley filled with
explosives just as the
soldiers entered it,
and as Palestinian gunmen
fired on the
troops from nearby
rooftops, the IDF
said. The ambush prompted
Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon to
call Tuesday --
the 12th day of Israel's
West Bank
operation -- a "difficult
day." (Full story)
Brig. Gen. Ron Kitrey said
the soldiers
were from two separate
forces operating
in the area. One of the
forces was hit by
boobytrap explosives and a suicide bomber. Meanwhile,
about 20 gunmen opened
fire on the second force, which was in a nearby
courtyard.
After the incident, Sharon said the Israeli campaign in
the West Bank will continue
until Palestinian militias are defeated. "This battle
is a batt le for survival of the
Jewish people, for survival of the state of Israel," he
said.
An estimated 150 Palestinians and 22 Israeli soldiers
-- including the 13 killed Tuesday -- have died in
Jenin since the Israeli incursion began April 2. There
was no independent confirmation of that figure,
which is a general estimate based on reports from
Palestinian officials, Israeli media and eyewitnesses.
Elsewhere Tuesday, Israeli forces, using loud
speakers, told residents of a neighborhood in Nablus
to leave their homes because they were going to
fire, according to reports. The IDF said its troops
were continuing to search for suspected terrorists,
illegal weapons caches and explosives laboratories.
Moments later, according to eyewitness accounts,
explosions that sounded like tank shells boomed in
the distance. The Israel Defense Forces had no
immediate comment on the report.
Hundreds surrender
Meanwhile, forces imposed a curfew on the rest of
Nablus, the largest city in the West Bank and the
site of heavy fighting in recent days. Reporters in
the West Bank town said the Israeli army was
appealing to males 15 to 45 to give up. The IDF said
hundreds complied.
"Several armed terrorists were wounded and 16
explosive laboratories were found," an IDF
statement said. "They contained explosive devices
ready for detonation, materials for the production of
explosives and additional weaponry."
Tanks and armored personnel carriers surrounded the
Casbah, the old city in the
center of Nablus, according to reports.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it had removed
the bodies of 48
Palestinians killed at Nablus during several days of
fighting. Another 41 wounded
had been carried to hospitals but more wounded remained
in the city, the Red
Crescent said.
Violence continued elsewhere, too.
Troops withdrew from Qalqilya and Tulkarem after they
"seriously harmed the terror
infrastructure," the IDF said.
Israeli forces entered Dura, a town southwest of
Hebron, with the goal of
"apprehending wanted suspects," the IDF said.
A rocket was fired into northern Israel from south
Lebanon Tuesday following clashes
between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli troops,
Lebanese security sources said. There
were no immediate reports of casualties. Earlier,
Israeli forces in the area fired artillery into
Lebanon after coming under Hezbollah attack. No
casualties were reported.
Three Palestinians were killed in fights with Israeli
troops in Hebron, Palestinian
sources said.
Israeli troops began their offensive in the West Bank
on March 29. The operation
started during a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings
over the Passover holiday.
Arab anger
Arab nations have condemned the Israeli incursions,
launched during a wave of
Palestinian suicide bombings over the Passover holiday.
"We have seen how many civilians have been killed, how
many civilians have been
maimed, how many houses have been destroyed, and how
people have not been
allowed to get medical help that they needed," said
Egyptian Foreign Minister
Ahmed Maher.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Cairo for a meeting
with Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak, said he spoke with Sharon Tuesday. The
prime minister reaffirmed
his "commitment to bring this to an end as quick as he
can," said Powell, who is
due to arrive in Israel Thursday.
Powell also said he intends to meet with Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat at some
point after he arrives in Israel. Arafat has been holed
up for more than a week at his
compound in Ramallah, on the West Bank. (Full story)
Meanwhile, Israeli officials said they would allow
Arafat to meet with his senior
aides once the aides meet with U.S. Middle East envoy
Anthony Zinni. Palestinians
said they need to meet with Arafat first, because they
have not talked him in days.
Arafat's senior officials will confer with Arafat on
Wednesday, said Saeb Erakat,
the Palestinians' chief negotiator. After that session,
another group of senior
Palestinian officials will meet with Zinni, he said.
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