The Palestinian government condemned on Friday the "horrendous bloodbath" masterminded by Israel here and that ended up in the killing of five Palestinians. It said in a statement that the Israeli air raid is a criminal act and part of the permanent Israeli policy that hinges on premeditated murder and assassination. Spokesman for the government Ghazi Hamad said in the statement released here that it is not strange that the crime that unveils the ugly image of the Israeli occupation comes in the second day of coming of the new government led by Ehud Olmert to power.Meanwhile Chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat condemned the Israeli raid adding that the Israeli assassination is programmed and comes within context of the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. He warned that keeping on the Israeli aggressive policy, the continued building of the separation wall in the occupied West Bank, expanding the Israeli settlements and forcing unilateral solution by Israel would lead to "expanding the circle of bloody violence in the region".
Earlier the Israeli occupation army admitted responsibility for the air raid that allegedly targeted a training camp for militants of the popular resistance committees and killed five of them.