Palestinian assassinated by Israeli forces

21/02/2007| IslamWeb

Undercover Israeli forces have assassinated an Islamic Jihad commander in the occupied West Bank.

The group identified the deceased as its commander in the northern West Bank.

Medical sources said that Mahmoud Abu Obeid, 25, the leader of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank city of Jenin was killed by Israeli special forces on Wednesday.

He was shot dead in Jenin by special forces dressed up as Palestinians, witnesses said.

The unit ambushed his car at a roundabout before firing into the car, the sources added.

Abu Obeid's death comes one day after Israeli police arrested an Islamic Jihad operative from Jenin at a flat in a Tel Aviv  suburb on suspicion of preparing a bomb attack.

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Palestinians carry the body of a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Mohammed Saeedi, during his funeral in Gaza February 13, 2007. (Reuters)