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Israeli Tank Opens Fire At Peace Activists In Jenin

Avery was seriously shot in the face by Israeli gunfire

BY Mustafa el-Sawaf, IOL Palestine Correspondent

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Sunday 6 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Two peace activists, an American and a Dane, were injured when Israeli occupation forces opened indiscriminate fire on a number of Palestinian youths and peace activists in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
American Barry Avery, 24, sustained a serious gunshot in the face while Danish Lasse Schmit, 35, was injured in the leg by shrapnel, during a clash between Palestinians and Israeli forces, a spokesman for the Israeli army told the public radio.

But witnesses said that an Israeli tank opened fired in the evening in the direction of a group of five pacifists in the street amid the clashes.

The two peace activists are members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

A column of Israeli armored vehicles rolled into the centre of the city and its adjacent refugee camp on Friday, April 4, and imposed a curfew.

On March 16, a 23-year-old ISM activist from the United States was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she was acting as a human shield to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian house.

Two Palestinian Deaths

In another related development, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli incursion in a central Gaza Strip village, officials on both sides said.

Yussef Abu Madi, 14, was shot when firing erupted as Israeli forces pulled out of Al-Msaddar, north of the Deir al-Balah refugee camp, after a six-hour manhunt for "wanted" Palestinians.

Earlier in the raid, 26-year-old Marwan Abu Jayab was killed after being hit by several bullets.

Palestinian officials initially said he was a civilian but the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas said he was one of its members, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

An Israeli army spokesman said the soldiers had shot at the man, who had fired an anti-tank rocket.

Palestinian officials said a total of 15 people were injured and 15 abducted in the incursion.

The Israeli occupation forces imposed a curfew on the village and ordered all of its residents aged 15 to 50 years out in a local school they turned into a detention camp, said Ayman Al-Msaddar, the mayor of the village.

The area is now fully paralyzed, with the thud of fire trade between the Palestinian fighters and the Israeli forces is heard.

The latest death brings to 3,130 the number of people killed since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupted in September 2000, including 2,353 Palestinians and 719 Israelis.

An Israeli military source also said that five Palestinians from Hamas were abducted in the West Bank towns of Qalqilya and Hebron.

Late Saturday, a Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces as he tried to break into the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba on the edge of Al-Khalil (Hebron), a flashpoint city where some 600 settlers live in an enclave surrounded by 120,000 Palestinians.