WEST BANK: Palestinian gunmen attack West Bank governor who's a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Record ID: 561401

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinian gunmen attack West Bank governor who's a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
  • Date: 14th April 2008
  • Summary: (BN15) NABLUS, WEST BANK (APRIL 13, 2008) (REUTERS) WIDE OF CROWD GATHERING WHERE NABLUS' GOVERNOR'S CAR WAS SET ON FIRE VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN SECURITY MEN IN STREET MORE OF CAR BURNING MORE OF SECURITY MEN IN STREET WIDE OF AREA
  • Embargoed: 29th April 2008 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA6IOTC1Y66M7LC2NXCEX200F55
  • Story Text: Palestinian gunmen attacked and destroyed the car of a close confidant of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday (April 13), although the identity and motive of the attackers was not immediately clear.
    Local eyewitnesses said that gunmen shot at the car of Nablus governor Jamal al-Mouhsen when he travelled in the Balata refugee camp in the city. He was not hurt in the attack, although one of his bodyguards was slightly injured.
    An elite Palestinian force later extricated Mouhsen and his entourage from a house in which they sought refuge in the Balata camp but the attackers later set about the governor's car and torched it.
    A senior security official who declined to be named said Mouhsen, a senior figure in Abbas's Fatah faction which holds sway in the occupied West Bank, was attacked by gunmen who escaped from a Palestinian jail where they were held.
    A number of gunmen agreed to remain in custody in Palestinian jails as part of an amnesty agreement with Israel, which promised not to hunt them and kill them in exchange for handing in their weapons and a cooling-off period behind bars.
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