Palestine Today 051409

One fighter killed in Gaza and settlers attack farmers in the West Bank, these stories and more coming up, stay tuned.
The newscast
One Palestinian fighter was reported dead on Thursday in the town of Khan Younis in the northern Gaza strip.

The Al Qassam brigades the armed wing of Hamas, said that the fighter was killed during what they called “a special mission.” The Israeli army has not issued any comment on the incident.

Also in the news today a group of Israeli settlers on Thursday attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Khirbit Um-alkher near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The villagers said that the settlers came from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Karm’el. They added that at least 15 armed settlers ransacked and damaged three homes and killed two sheep dogs. They said the villagers had tried to stop the settlers before the Israeli military and police arrived and escorted the settlers out of the village.
The village is home to 170 farmers and their families. They have been frequently attacked by settlers who are trying to force them to leave the village so they can expand the Israeli settlement, the villagers told media.
Internally both Hamas and Fatah announced that each rival movements’ security forces had arrested members of the opposing faction in Gaza and the West Bank on Thursday.

Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, announced that security forces controlled by the Fatah movement arrested four of its members in different parts of the West Bank.

Meanwhile Fatah reported that two of its members were arrested by the Hamas run security forces in the Gaza Strip.

Conclusion
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