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In other action Tuesday, an Israeli
army major was killed in the West
Bank town of Nablus. The Israel
Defense Forces said it was investigat-
ing the possibility that he was killed
by friendly fire.

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The ambush in Jenin occurred when
an IDF unit entered an enclosed
courtyard as part of their house-to-
house search for terrorists and
weapons. When most of the troops
were inside, a suicide bomber blew
himself up, and Palestinians stationed
on the surrounding rooftops opened
fire and threw explosives at the sol-
diers. Surrounding walls collapsed on
the troops, burying them. Eight sol-
diers were killed.
A second group of soldiers respond-
ing to the explosions also came under
fire. Five more soldiers were killed and
nine were wounded.
Since the start of Operation
Protective Wall, 22 soldiers have been
killed in Jenin. The refugee camp is a
stronghold for Islamic terrorists, and
dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
suicide bombers have been dispatched
from there.
Israeli security officials said this
week that the armed Palestinians in
Jenin appeared intent on fighting to
the death. At a news conference
Tuesday, the head of the Israeli army's
central command, Maj. Gen. Yitzhak
Eitan, attributed the fierce fighting to
the fact that the refugee camp hosts
the "infrastructure for the suicide
bombers of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and
Fatah.
"Unfortunately, these same bombers
have no consideration for their own
civilian populations, and use them as
human cover to fight us. This group
of suicide bombers has refused, and
refuses now, all our appeals to surren-
der."
Israeli officials expressed concern
Tuesday that images from the refugee
camp showing Israeli tanks tearing
down walls to get through narrow
alleyways, along with reports of dead
bodies strewn in the streets, will draw
international condemnation.
The officials made a point of stating
that the TDF was fighting armed
Palestinians, not carrying out mas-
sacres of innocent civilians.
The officials said the army had
given assurances that it would not fire
on rescue workers coming to clear the
dead and wounded, but that
Palestinian ambulances nonetheless
would not remove the casualties. LI