The city of Nablus and surrounding cities and villages have been under strict military curfew, and majority of the Nablus area citizens have couragously defied these orders imposed on their lives. For the past 24 hours the people of Nablus have had to endure shelling not only from heavy land artillery of the most sophisticated weapons but also from air raids.

At 4:30 PM the Israeli Occupation Forces have stepped up their violent shelling campaign especially in the Dawar Centre Area (Circle Center) of Nablus. What was already a dangerous situation spun into an even more violent situation. Two buildings known as Sabre and Karmel Buildings have been totally set on fire due to IOF's cantsant shelling. As people rushed to the scene amdist reports of people trapped in these burning buildings the IOF kept them away using live rounds of ammunition shooting in the direction of International Solidarity Movemnet volunteers and local Palestinian children. The IOF for a long period of time kept the media, ambulances, and firetrucks from entering. At approximately 6:30 PM they were all allowed in, ISM activists entered with paramedics and firefighters into the burning building as a search and rescue team.

One of the burning buildings has been utterly destroyed and 10 of the unknown number of people trapped in the building are in serious condition due to smoke inhalation and were whisked away to Rafadiya Hospital in Nablus, luckily no deaths have been reported.

Five Israeli soldiers have been injured and 1 died due to the exchange of heavy gun fire with Palestinian fighters in the Dawar Centre Area. It is reported that an Israeli tank used for shelling the buildings had exploded; the cause of this explosion is not yet known.

It is also reported at 6:30 PM a second Palestinian child was killed from Israels murderious rage. Martyr Mohamed Zaghloul was only 10 years old also from the Nablus area. The first child martyr today was 13 year old Ahmed Youseff Abu-Abayya from the Balata Refugee Camp also killed from direct live ammunition.

At approximately 8PM the Israeli Occupation Forces have left the area of the burning buildings in Dawar Centre Area heading towards Balata and Askar Refugee Camps to continue their shelling campaign.

The total thus far of those injured due to Israel's violent rage is 36, and one of those injured is a little child who was shot in the stomach. All of the injured are now present in the Rafadiya Hospital in Nablus.