Palestinian Resistance Kills Three Israeli Soldiers

19/10/2003| IslamWeb

Palestinian resistance gunmen killed three Zionist soldiers and wounded at least one Sunday in an ambush on a West Bank road north of the city of Ramallah, an Israeli security source said. The attack occurred in the Palestinian village of Ein Yabrud, near the Jewish settlement of Ofra. Following the attack, Israeli troops stormed into Ein Yabrud to conduct searches. Speaking a short time after the shooting, Israel's Justice Minister Yosef Lapid condemned the attack, saying that "the Palestinians don't realize the disaster they are bringing upon themselves." Earlier Sunday, Israel called up several hundred reserve soldiers to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of rising resistance and fears of a new wave of Palestinian bomb attacks. Yaron said the reservists would plug gaps caused by cuts in defense spending. She did not say how many reservists had been called up, but military sources put the number at several hundred. Israeli forces killed two Palestinian activists, a woman bystander and a teen-ager in Saturday. Three of the deaths were in southern Gaza, where troops withdrew from one refugee camp Sunday after a four-day raid but remained in another. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Palestinian Abdullah Surhi, left gestures as he walks past an Israeli border police officer securing the construction site of part of the apartheid wall Israeli authorities are building between east Jerusalem area, and the West Bank village of Abu Dis, Friday Oct. 17, 2003. (AP Photo/Mohammed Sadek)