Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and killing of a Jerusalem businessman who was found dead on Monday. The resistance fighters said in a statement that they had kidnapped 51-year-old Sasson Nuriel, whom they had identified as a Shin Bet security service agent, on Wednesday. They had intended to trade him for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. However, after Israel began a series of arrest raids against West Bank resistance fighters, they decided to kill him, the statement said on Tuesday. Nuriel was found dead on Monday near the West Bank town of Ram Allah, and police said the attack appeared to be a "terror attack".