Israeli F-16 Warplanes Strike on Ramallah

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Israeli F-16 Warplanes Strike on Ramallah

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Israeli F-16 warplanes attacked a Palestinian police position Sunday in Ramallah shortly after nine Israelis were killed in a shooting attack on an Israeli army checkpoint north of the city, Palestinian security sources reported.

The sources in the city said the planes attacked a police station near the headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, causing severe damage to the building. No injuries were reported.

The sources added that the F-16 warplanes attacked another police station near the Amari refugee camp on the outskirts of Ramallah, adding that Israeli army tanks fired at a Palestinian military intelligence building in Salfit, north of Ramallah.

The sources said that as a result of the tanks shelling by missiles, one Palestinian military intelligence officer was killed, and four others were injured, and taken to the hospital.

The sources also said that earlier on Sunday, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a Palestinian police headquarters in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Israeli radio Arabic service reported that the Apache helicopters airstrike was in retaliation for the suicide bombing attack which killed nine people Saturday evening in the ultra- Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army pulled out from the West Bank refugee camp of Balata on Sunday morning, but is continuing to blockade both Balata and the Jenin refugee camp. The army pulled out of the Jenin camp Saturday.

Palestinian medical sources said that one Palestinian from Balata refugee camp died of his wound sustained on Thursday when Israeli infantry troops tried to enter into the refugee camp.

The sources in Balata said that before the army left the camp, Israeli Apache helicopters fired intensive heavy gunfire at several spots in the camp. No injuries were reported.

Palestinian security sources said at least five missiles hit al- Mukata police station in a pre-dawn strike, causing heavy damage and setting it on fire, but inflicting no casualties.

The sources said that the helicopters attacked the al-Mukata building and a workshop for manufacturing weapons in Bethlehem in response to the suicide bombing in Jerusalem.

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