WEST BANK: In latest flareup in violence, Israeli forces kill Palestinian militant in West Bank raid

Record ID: 565439

  • Title: WEST BANK: In latest flareup in violence, Israeli forces kill Palestinian militant in West Bank raid
  • Date: 7th February 2006
  • Summary: HIGH ANGLE SHOTS GROUP OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS ARRIVING AT AREA; ISRAELI SOLDIERS RUNNING IN STREET; BULLDOZER ARRIVING AT SITE; BULLDOZER DISMANTLING THE WALL OF A BUILDING (6 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 22nd February 2006 12:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAEO22QBPVK7KZLXGDOGZOSTUBK
  • Story Text: Israeli troops killed a local commander of Islamic Jihad in a raid on the West Bank town of Nablus on Tuesday (February 7, 2006). The early morning raid came a day after Israel killed two other militants in an air strike in Gaza in the worst flareup of violence since Hamas swept to victory in parliamentary elections. The Israeli army said two soldiers were wounded in a gunbattle in Nablus where troops had surrounded a building to press a wanted gunman inside to surrender. The army could not say whether the militant had been killed.
    A Palestinian security source said the troops had killed a local commander of Islamic Jihad, a group bent on Israel's destruction also responsible for a series of recent suicide bombings in Israel.
    The Israeli raid was the latest in a spiral of escalating violence. A day earlier, Israel killed two militants of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, in an air strike in Gaza on Monday (February 6).
    On Sunday (February 5), Israel killed five other Palestinian militants, including a top Islamic Jihad bombmaker, in two separate air raids in Gaza. An Israeli woman was killed in a stabbing attack in central Israel on the same day.
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