WEST BANK: ISRAELI SOLDIERS ENTER THE PALESTINIAN CITY OF NABLUS AND SURROUND A HOUSE WHERE SUSPECTED HAMAS MILITANTS HAVE BEEN HIDING

Record ID: 400540

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI SOLDIERS ENTER THE PALESTINIAN CITY OF NABLUS AND SURROUND A HOUSE WHERE SUSPECTED HAMAS MILITANTS HAVE BEEN HIDING
  • Date: 15th April 2003
  • Summary: (W3) NABLUS, WEST BANK (APRIL 15, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV SURROUNDING HOUSE WHERE SUSPECTED MILITANTS ARE HIDING AND SOUND OF GUNFIRE (2 SHOTS) 0.20 2. SLV OF ARMY JEEPS ON ROAD NEAR HOUSE 0.25 3. LV/SV SOLDIERS AT SITE OF HOUSE (2 SHOTS) 0.35 4. LV/SV OF SOLDIERS AND HOUSE (SOUND OF GUNFIRE) (8 SHOTS) 1.32 (W3
  • Embargoed: 30th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: NABLUS AND HEBRON, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA2TKCLJ1VYV6476E70HDPAUV0H
  • Story Text: One Palestinian has been killed and another two
    arrested by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Nablus,
    after Israeli soldiers entered the Palestinian city and surrounded
    a house where three suspected Hamas militants where hiding.

    An Israeli soldier was also killed by Plaestinian gunmen
    in the action in Nablus.



    Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman and took
    two other militants into custody on Tuesday (April 15) after
    surrounding an apartment building where the three wanted men
    were holed up, witnesses said. An Isreali soldier was also
    killed by Palestinian gunmen in the action in Nablus.


    Several apartments were damaged in exchanges of fire
    during the operation in the West Bank city of Nablus.

    The gunman killed in Nablus was identified by Palestinian
    security sources as a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,
    affiliated with President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. His
    body was found on the roof of the building after the clash.

    One of the men detained in the raid belonged to the
    militant Islamic group Hamas. The other Palestinian taken into
    custody was also wanted by Israel, the security sources said,
    but his affiliation was not immediately known.

    An Israeli army spokesman confirmed that troops had
    carried out an operation in Nablus but gave no details.

    In the West Bank city of Hebron, the army demolished the
    family home of a suspected Hamas militant. An army statement
    said he had tried to carry out an attack in the nearby Jewish
    settlement of Kiryat Arba on April 5.

    At least 1,992 Palestinians and 729 Israelis have been
    killed since the uprising began in September 2000.








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