Posted on 06/19/2002 10:14:48 PM PDT by HAL9000
Two Israeli soldiers killed at the time of the operation of Kalkiliya
Thursday June 20, 2002 - 4h44 GMT
JERUSALEM, June 20 (AFP) - Two Israeli soldiers, a commander and a sergeant, were killed Wednesday in a fixing with Palestinian combatants, in the autonomous city of Kalkiliya in the West Bank, announced to Thursday an Israeli military spokesman.
Four other soldiers, two officers and two soldiers were wounded during the fixing during which was killed the regional head of a Palestinian service of safety, Mazen Slimane and one of its men captured, according to this source.
The Israeli army had announced initially that five Israeli soldiers had been touched by shootings in this incident.
The exchanges of shootings occurred with the accesses of a building of Palestinian safety.
The officer, Shlomi Cohen, were killed while trying to force the entry of the building with his men. A unit come in reinforcement was accomodated in its turn by a heavy fire and jets of grenades, which killed the sergeant.
Israeli units of infantry, supported by armoured tanks have re-occupied for Wednesday morning the town of Kalkiliya, in the north of the West Bank, the shortly after an attack commits suicide in Jerusalem which had made to Tuesday 19 victims without counting its author.
Other forces penetrated in the night of Wednesday to Thursday in the Palestinian autonomous zone of Ramallah, in the north of Jerusalem and in the Palestinian autonomous zone of Bethlehem in the south of Jerusalem.
These two operations occurred after a new attack commits suicide Palestinian in Jerusalem, the second in less than 48 hours, which cost the life Wednesday evening to six people in addition to the kamikaze and caused raids of reprisals of Israeli combat helicopters in the Gaza Strip.
Good choice for a name, however.
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