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Palestinian Terrorists Kill 6 in Home Invasion NewsMax.com WiresTEL AVIV, Israel – Palestinian gunmen killed six people, at least three of them children, after invading a home Thursday night in a Jewish settlement on the West Bank. At least four others were wounded in the home near Nablus, rescue workers and residents told Fox News. Among those slain, in addition to the children: their mother and a security guard who arrived at the scene when two Palestinian gunmen burst into the home and opened fire, a spokesman for the Jewish residents said. Israel Radio said that soldiers shot and killed one of the terrorists and that another fled gunfire and jumped out a window. One of the dead was a young boy, Jewish resident Yaacov Heiman told Israel Radio. "We heard screaming. We closed the house, and then the army started to come," he said. "It's a horrible feeling." Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took blame for the murders. "This is a horrendous attack, and there always has to be a response for such things," said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman, Raanan Gissin. Into the West Bank Earlier Thursday, the Israeli army moved into more Palestinian towns in the West Bank and began calling up reserve soldiers as it widened its military operation in response to the surge in Palestinian bombings. The Palestinian attacks created "a new strategic situation," Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said. Soldiers late Thursday were in Nablus, Jenin, Qalqilya, Tulkarim, Bitunia, Beit Jalla and Bethlehem, a senior military source told United Press International. Troops were surrounding Ramallah and the autonomous Palestinian section of Hebron. They were not besieging Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters, a military source said. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the West Bank town of Qalqilya during a military operation, Palestinian sources said. The scope of these activities and plans for more operations have become too much for the regular army that is also facing Hezbollah fire from Lebanon. The army is calling up a reserve brigade immediately, a senior military source told UPI. The soldiers in the captured towns have been detaining Palestinians for questioning, but many of the people on the army's wanted list have disappeared. On Tuesday, 19 people were killed in an attack on a bus in Jerusalem. An attack Wednesday, also in Jerusalem, killed seven. Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the armed wing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, claimed blame for the second attack. Arafat, whom Israel accuses of not doing enough to contain the violence, condemned the attacks. He said shootings and bombings "must be completely halted." Otherwise, he warned, the result might be "full Israeli occupation of our lands." The terrorist Hamas group said, however, it would not stop. "If we have an effective weapon in our hands and the whole world is trying to take it off us, this kind of reaction shows it to be the most effective way," Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Ranteesi said. Sharon's office released a statement Wednesday, before the second attack, warning, "Israel will respond to acts of terror by capturing territory." "These areas will be held by Israel as long as terror continues. Additional acts of terror will lead to the taking of additional areas." Copyright 2002 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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