JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Islamic Resistance leaders said Monday they were summoned by the Palestinian Authority over the weekend and warned there would be a tough response if they did not stop attacks on Israelis.The Islamic Jihad group said it would defy the orders, while the larger Hamas faction suggested it would abide by a truce with Israel, at least temporarily.
In the latest attack, a 17-year-old Islamic Jihad supporter blew himself up Sunday near an Israeli car, killing himself and the Israeli driver. The assailant was the 100th Resistance bomber sent to attack Israeli targets since 1993, Israel said. (Read photo caption below)
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been trying to enforce a Sept. 26 cease-fire with Israel, but has been unable to stop attacks on Israelis.
Arafat also faced with the worst internal Palestinian fighting in years Monday when protesters opposed to U.S. airstrikes on Afghanistan waged a gunbattle with police at the Islamic University in Gaza City. Two bystanders were killed and 50 people injured.
In the Gaza Strip, three Palestinian Resistance men were shot and killed by Israeli occupation troops on Monday as they tried to lay an explosive near the Karni crossing, the Israeli occupation army said.
Earlier, a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli fire near an Israeli army post in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian police said.
In Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, a flashpoint throughout the year of fighting, Israeli occupation troops fired from heavy machine guns mounted on tanks, Palestinian witnesses said. The Israeli army said it fired from machine guns not mounted on tanks in response to Palestinian fire at its forces. It was not immediately clear if there were injuries.
Also in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli motorist was seriously wounded in a roadside shooting attack.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Israeli occupation authorities examine the wreckage of a car damaged by a bomb on a road leading to Kibbutz Shluhot, five miles north of the West Bank, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001. A bomb exploded Sunday next to a car in an apparent suicide attack, killing an Israeli and Palestinian Ahmed Daraghmeh, suspected of carrying out the bombing. The Palestinian high school senior has become the 100th Resistance bomber sent to attack Israel since 1993. Israeli statistics indicate most of the assailants were very young - under 23 - and exceptionally well-educated. (AP Photo/Ygal Levy)
- Oct 08 5:32 PM ET