JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) -In a day of bitter intifadha confrontations on several fronts, two Palestinians were killed and at least 20 were wounded, while at least six Israelis were hurt.In the center of Hebron, heavily armed Israeli occupation soldiers and lightly armed Palestinian Resistance men battled Monday evening. Two Palestinians were killed and about 20 were injured in widespread Israeli gunfire, the Palestinians said. Two Israeli occupationsoldiers were hurt in an explosion, one seriously, the occupation army said.
South of the West Bank city, a Jewish settler was shot and seriously wounded when his car was ambushed by Palestinian Resistance men.
Hebron has been the scene of repeated clashes throughout the recent Mideast fighting. About 500 Jewish settlers live in several small enclaves in the city, home to about 130,000 Palestinians.
In Jerusalem, three of the four bombs went off in and around French Hill, a neighborhood in the northern part of the city illegally built on land Israel captured in the 1967 war. Two explosions occurred before dawn causing no injuries. Shortly before 8 a.m., a bomb placed in a car exploded, injuring one woman, setting the vehicle on fire and scattering debris in the street.
The fourth bomb was placed in a municipal pickup truck in French Hill, police said. A municipal worker, unaware of the bomb, drove the vehicle early Monday to the Gilo neighborhood, which has been the scene of Palestinian sniper attacks, and that bomb exploded just before 8 a.m. Two people were injured.The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said its military wing - the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigade - carried out the attacks in retaliation for last week's killing of the group's leader.
Israel claims that the attack, which clearly comes in the context of a state terror campaign, was in retaliation for the Monday's bombs and shooting attacks against Israelis in the West Bank. (Read photo caption below) Israeli helicopters fired several missiles at a Palestinian security building in Dura, near Hebron.
The unrest came as the EU's senior foreign policy envoy, Javier Solana, arrived in Israel to try and help broker a meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.
PHOTO CAPTION:
An Israeli occupation soldier prepares the gun on his tank in the West Bank city of Hebron September 3, 2001. At least two Palestinians were killed and several wounded during a fierce gunbattle between poorly armed Palestinian Resistance men and Israeli occupation troops armed to the teeth. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
- Sep 03 2:26 PM ET