HEADLIGHTS: Trigger Happy Occupation Soldiers Allegedly Mistook Three Victims for Bombers||Baz & Mahir First Arab Officials to Meet Arafat After Release||STORY: Israeli occupation soldiers killed a Palestinian woman and two children Sunday allegedly by mistake when they opened fire after a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle near the West Bank city of Jenin. (Read photo caption)

One soldier suffered light wounds from the large bomb that blew up next to the vehicle as a unit patrolled near an occupation army base in the northern West Bank.

A woman and two children were hit by gunfire, when they were spotted by occupation troops moving in the vicinity. Shedding crocodile tears Israeli occupation army sources apologized for the incident and regretted the loss of life.

Palestinian officials said they had information from Israel that three people were killed but did not have any further details.
Another Israeli security source said soldiers were under orders to open fire after being hit by roadside bombs because the attackers were often still nearby after detonating the devices.

In Ramallah, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmad Mahir, and President Hosni Mubarak's top adviser, Osama Al-Baz, met Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. The two men have become the first Arab officials to meet Arafat since Israel ended its month-long siege of his compound on Thursday. The two men were flown aboard a Jordanian helicopter to the West Bank town of Ramallah for a two-hour meeting with Arafat. No further details were immediately available.

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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (R) welcomes Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher (L) at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2002. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heads to the United States on Sunday to lay out his idea of a peace plan after his army's massive offensive in the Palestinian West Bank cities. REUTERS/Hussein Hussein-Hando