Israeli Troops Razing Home Clash With Palestinians, Kill 1

An Israeli campaign of destroying the homes of suspected terrorists led to a major confrontation in a West Bank village today in which Israeli troops shot and killed one Palestinian and wounded 21 others.

Two Israeli officers were slightly hurt by stones and 10 soldiers were injured in stone and firebomb attacks in this village near Nablus, the army said.

Residents said about 50 other Palestinians were injured by tear gas and rubber bullets.

Soldiers entered the village before dawn to destroy the home of Ahmed abu Said Hanani, implicated in the murders of Israeli civilians and former Nablus Mayor Zafer Masri in 1986, an army spokesman said.

“The force found the village closed by roadblocks and it was attacked by rioters throwing bottles, cinder blocks and stones,” the spokesman said.

Troops opening fire injured at least 21 residents, six seriously, Dr. Hamid Masri said at a Nablus hospital. A 23-year-old woman was shot in the neck. Three other residents were treated for wounds from beatings and rubber bullets.

Tayseer Hussein Imlaitat, 25, shot in the heart, was the latest fatality in a six-month Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip that has claimed at least 218 Arab and three Jewish lives.