IDF undercover terorists caught in Ramullah. Gaza deaths mount.

An IDF elite undercover raid in Ramallah. West Bank, Palestine to kidnap Muhammed Shubaki went terribly wrong today when they were spotted and had to call military back up.

Released from an Israeli jail two years ago, 20 months after receiving a 20 year sentence , Shubaki has allegedly been attempting to establish an Islamic Jihad infrastructure in Ramallah.

The kidnappers car was spotted when it broke down and was stoned and then torched and a small arms battle ensued in which at least two Palestinians were killed. Several dozen were reportedly wounded.

One soldier was lightly injured in his head after he was struck with a rock.Extensive damage to military jeeps sent into the city was also reported.

The incident was captured by el-Jazeera staellite TV and was transmitted live around the world.

The Israeli army claims it was attacked by Palestinians armed with guns and stones. The Palestinians say the troops came to back up an undercover Israeli team trapped inside a building.The hour-long clash in Ramallah's main shopping area, most by live gunfire and some by rubber bullets - at least 5 deaths are reported and up to 30 Palestinians injured.

The Intifada which started in September 2000 has so far claimed more than 5,000 lives, 80 per cent of whom are Palestinians.

Gaza : Civil war threatens between Hamas / Fatah as more dieIn Gaza Nabil Hodhod, 35, a security services commander in Gaza died in his car outside a mosque. A security guard Salem Khudeih, a member of the new, black-uniformed, 3,000-strong paramilitary “support unit” created by Said Siyam, a Hamas man and the Interior Minister of the Palestinian Authority, is the 9th person killed this month during an increasingly violent power struggle between Hamas and Fatah.

A gun battle broke out in Shifa hospital when Mr Hodhod’s body was taken there, with gunmen on hospital balconies firing at others outside.(Pic (c) al- Jazeera of someone wounded in the hospital shootout)

Hamas have publicly blamed Mr Khudeih’s killing on the Preventive Security Services (PSS), the Fatah-dominated force that is one of several security fiefdoms within Mr Abbas’s increasingly fragmented Palestinian Authority. Run by Rashid Abu Shbak, a Fatah strongman, it has long been associated with Mohammed Dahlan, a powerful former Interior Minister.

It isn't only gunmen who are victims in this power struggle 15 year old Bilal Herzala, was among ten schoolchildren injured after a gun fight between Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a Fatah offshoot, outside his school a fortnight ago.

Palestinians and their faithful supporters throughout the world commemorated May 15, as Nakba Day, the day when Israel was declared a state atop the ruins of Palestinian homes and hundreds of ethnically cleansed towns and villages, 58 years ago. Now they support their oppressors by fighting and killing themselves.