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| Two killed in Israeli army incursion in West Bank |
| 2007-10-16 |
| Ramallah - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian militant and an elderly bystander in exchanges of fire in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday, medical officials said. Some 25 Israeli military vehicles drove into the city to arrest militants from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. The troops exchanged fire with members of the Brigades holed up in a house in Nablus' Old City, seriously injuring three when shelling the building. Basem Abu Sarriyeh, also known as Qaddafi and the leader of a sub- group calling itself the Knights of the Night An elderly resident of the Old City in his 70s was also shot. Relatives said he went out of his house to inspect what was going on when he was hit in the crossfire, while other Palestinian sources said soldiers forced him to leave his house. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report. |
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