PALESTINE: Explosive charge injures children in Jenin

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Att.Editors: The following item is from the Qatar News Agency (QNA)

JENIN, Apr 9 2003 (IPS) - About 20 Palestinian children were injured when an explosive charge went off at a basic education school in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources said.

The same sources added that the explosive charge-related blast occurred inside a classroom at the same school and wounded 20 children, three of them seriously.

The sources pointed out that it was the Israeli settlers who might have planted such explosives and referred that the school is located nearby one of the Israeli settlements set up in the region.