Occupied Jerusalem - Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday murdered at least two Palestinian civilians, a teen-ager and farmer, hospital sources said. The sources said Israeli troops riding armored personnel carriers in Nablus shot and killed a Palestinian boy who reportedly was throwing stones toward the military vehicles. Three other boys were wounded by gunfire during the occupation army's rampage in the northern West Bank town which lasted until the mid morning hours. In the Gaza Strip, Zionist troops killed a farmer who was working in his farm north of Gaza. Palestinian sources said the Zionist army fired an artillery shell at Muhammed Farra, 45, who was farming in Abassan east of Khan Younis. The Israeli army said it was firing randomly on Palestinian civilian neighborhood because of heavy fog in the area. Israeli routinely target Palestinian civilian areas, killing and maiming many innocent people. However, Israeli spokesmen, when speaking to foreign media, deny vehemently that their troops target Palestinian civilians. During the past five years, especially since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada in Sept. 2000, the Israeli army murdered or killed more than 4000 Palestinians the vast bulk of whom are believed to be innocent civilians. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_15852.shtml

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories." -- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." -- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998. "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them." -- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998. "Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial." -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online monabaker.com/quotes.htm

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