Israeli's occupation Army has announced that its soldiers have killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, three of them were killed near the Nahil Oz crossing in the North East. A Palestinian source meanwhile said the fourth was killed near Sofa crossing East of Rafah in the south. Earlier reports said that the occupation army entered entered Beit Hanoun where Palestinian plantations were leveled to the ground by Israeli bulldozers.

OCCUPATION FORCES DESTROY HOMES OF TWO PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS

Israeli occupation troops destroyed the homes of two Palestinian activists near the West Bank town of Jenin overnight.

The occupation army used dynamite and a bulldozer to raze the house of Ahmed Abdel Kader Atik, a member of the Palestinian Resistance group Hamas, a Palestinian security source said Sunday.

The Israeli occupation army claimed he had been responsible for an armed attack in the West Bank in March which left one Israeli occupation soldier dead and three others injured.

The home of Nidal Ibrahim Mustapha Abu Sharuf, also in the Burkin area, was destroyed in similar crcumstances.

The Israelis described him as an activist with the Palestinian resistance movement Jihad who had carried out a resistance attack north of Tel Aviv last year that killed two Israelis and injured eight others.

The Palestinian side said Israeli occupation forces had also arrested three Hamas members in Tubas, near the West Bank town of Nablus.

SHARON FACES NO-CONFIDENCE TEST IN KNESSET

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faces a new challenge to his political survival on Monday with parliament set to vote on the first no-confidence measure since his broad coalition government collapsed last week.

Israeli lawmakers are due to begin the debate on the motion brought by the left-wing opposition Meretz party at 9 a.m. EST.

Sharon is expected to weather the vote after securing the support of an ultra-nationalist opposition party to bolster his minority government's 55 seats in the 120-member assembly.

He is currently courting the party, the far-right National Union-Yisrael Beitenu faction, to join his new government.

On Sunday, hawkish former Prime Minister and political rival Benjamin Netanyahu demanded early elections as a condition for accepting Sharon's offer of the post of foreign minister.

Any alliance between the two would likely be uneasy, as Netanyahu still plans to challenge Sharon for the Likud leadership in the next election Israel holds. Netanyahu, 53, served as Likud prime minister from 1996 to 1999.

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Israeli occupation troops destroyed the homes of two Palestinian activists near the West Bank town of Jenin, Sunday, Nov 3, 2002.