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An armed Palestinian man, a member of al-Aqsa Brigades snuck into an Israeli Kibbutz late Sunday and opened fire, killing five people, including two children.

The attack on Kibbutz Metzer came only a few hours after two Palestinians died when their car exploded in the area, just one mile north of the West Bank. Israeli sources had claimed that the car possibly exploded due to the premature detonation of an explosive belt.

Those who died in the Kibbutz attack was a mother, her two young sons and two others.

There is no words to describe this, Roni Cohen, the childrens uncle said.

Another member of the Kibbutz, Doron Lieber, told reporters, We have a mother and her two children .. who are no longer with us, and they are victims of a war that has no end.

Al-Aqsa Intifada Brigades, a military wing affiliated with the Fatah movements, which now stands at odds with the Palestinian Authority declared responsibility for the attack, saying it embodied a political message.

The attack was a message to the negotiators in Cairo that al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades will not stop its struggle and attacks against Israel, said an unnamed spokesman for the group in the West Bank.

Fatah and Hamas officials are meeting in Cairo, to discuss the overall strategy of the two-year-old Palestinian uprising but also to discuss the possibility of limited Palestinian retaliatory attacks to Israeli soldiers and militants settlers within the Occupied Territories.

The Kibbutz attack promoted now foreign minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for expelling Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, a policy he has advocated for years.

While expelling Arafat might be a policy-on-hold at least until the next Israeli elections, Palestinians are anticipating another harsh military action in the West Bank and Gaza.

I hate the word retaliation, a Palestinian teacher, referring to himself with his first name Shalabi, in Ramallah told the Palestine Chronicle.

He added, When the Israeli army comes to bombard civilian areas after this, and they will, the media would boast Israel is retaliating. He added. May I remind everyone that Israel has been killing our mothers and children and people almost every day with or without Palestinian provocation. Its in fact that sense of injustice that drives people into insanity.

The Mayor of the Kibbutz, which is reportedly a dove community with good relations with Palestinians said that We will still have good relations (with the Palestinians).

Meanwhile while Arafat ordered an immediate investigation into the attack and condemned the killing of civilians, Israeli attack helicopters bombarded a neighborhood in Gaza, igniting a large fire. No casualties have yet been reported.

Sine that : "Fatah and Hamas officials are meeting in Cairo, (...) also to discuss the possibility of limited Palestinian retaliatory attacks to Israeli soldiers and militants settlers within the Occupied Territories."

Since that the Kibbutz aimed is a leftis Kibbutz commited into peace and cooperation with Palestinians.

And since that at the same time, Sharon's army did a political murder to destabilize Cairo meeting.
(See : http://www.archive.indymedia.be/front.php3?article_id=38017&group=webcast )

The "embodied a political message" of the "Al-Aqsa Intifada Brigades" is that they are against Palestinian Autority and that they are allies of Sharon strategy : destroy any kind of cooperation and peace between Israelis and Palestinian peoples.

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