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MORE than 150 Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers, backed by helicopter gunships, swept into Nablus in the early hours of Wednesday morning amid intensive and indiscriminate machinegun fire, reports Khalid Amayreh from Jerusalem.
Palestinian sources said Israeli forces entered the largest town in the West Bank from the east and west with tank-mounted machineguns firing in all directions.
The Israeli army said the operation, code-named Knight of the Night, was aimed at arresting "terrorists". Soon after entering the city Israeli snipers were posted atop strategic buildings with the barrels of their machineguns trained on the streets. A curfew was imposed on Nablus's 200,000 inhabitants with Israeli soldiers warning through loudspeakers that anyone stepping outside would be shot.
Elsewhere in the West Bank Israeli occupation forces stormed Birzeit on Tuesday night. Palestinian sources said occupation soldiers stormed dormitories, rounding up scores of students. "They came like mad dogs and started beating anybody in their way with the butts of their M-16 rifles," said Sari Ayyad, a student.
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