Reinforcements arrived from a nearby training base for new conscripts and two soldiers were wounded in an ensuing firefight, the military said. The gunman ran into a nearby house where Miri Ohana, 50, and her 11-year-old daughter Yael were hiding. For a while, soldiers lost the gunman's trail, said Brig. Gen. Udi Shani, commander of forces in the Jordan Valley.
When troops finally sighted him in the house, he was quickly killed by four shots through a window by soldiers equipped with night vision goggles, Shani told The Associated Press. When soldiers entered the house, they found Yael dead on the floor, while her mother lay critically wounded in a nearby bedroom, Shani said. [b]"Thank God, you arrived," Mrs. Ohana told the soldiers before losing consciousness, Shani said. She died en route to a hospital.[/b]
Military officials had initially said they could not determine yet whether the two civilians were killed by the gunmen or by the soldiers' fire.
The attack on Hamra was preceded by a string of attempted attacks on Israeli civilians. On Wednesday, a bus driver alerted police to a suspicious passenger. Police and bystanders overpowered him near Jerusalem and discovered he was wearing a belt with explosives.
The would-be bomber was identified as Nidal Soragji, a high-school cafeteria worker from Nablus and a nephew of a leading Hamas militant killed last month in an Israeli raid of his hide-out.
North of Tel Aviv, two Palestinians with a large explosive device in their car were caught at a security checkpoint north of Tel Aviv as they were on their way to carry out an attack, police said.
In the West Bank, soldiers intercepted a truck carrying eight rockets for Palestinian militants in the West Bank. The rockets, with a range of six to seven miles, would give the Palestinians the ability to hit Israeli cities from the West Bank.
Sharon has warned that the firing of rockets at Israeli cities would be a turning point in Israel's relations with the Palestinian Authority.
See article at:[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39589-2002Feb7.html[/url]
So 'My brother faced the settlers face to face. He is a hero,' said Khalili's brother, Raed? I wonder, does that include the mother and daughter settlers? Yes, sir, an honest-to-God true 'Palestinian hero', all right!
The Israeli settler's son was right - 'the wolf [u]is[/u] coming to get us.'
Now, let me ask you - does this murderer's family need to be killed? Does the brother, at least, who called him a 'hero' need to be killed? Hmmm? I'm glad I don't have to make that decision!
But the Israelis will most likely [u]bulldoze[/u] his family's home after giving them an opportunity to leave! Gee, I hope this doesn't upset 5subslr5, too much!
[b]Too bad the murdering bastard didn't give the Israeli family an opportunity to leave, eh?[/b]
Eric The(Y'allFeelBetter,Now?)Hun[>]:)]