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Israeli troops kill Islamic Jihad leader
ISRAELI troops have killed the head of the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank in a gunbattle today. Walid Abeidi, 40, was shot dead during heavy exchanges of fire with Israeli troops who had encircled his house in the village of Qabatiya near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, security sources said. There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli army.
| That's the actual news contained in the article. The remainder is opinionated boilerplate. |
The raid comes one day after the deadliest single day of violence in a year in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces killed 19 Palestinians, including the son of a top Hamas leader, and Palestinian militants shot dead a civilian inside Israel.
| This guy was IJ, not Hamas. It's doubtful this was an anniversary celebration. |
The Israeli army carries out near daily raids in the impoverished Gaza Strip, where the Islamic Hamas movement seized power in June 2006, in a bid to curb rocket fire against southern Israel.
| This operation, however, was in the West Bank, and it wasn't against Hamas. |
The violence erupted after Israeli and Palestinians renewed peace talks on the most sensitive issues of the Middle East conflict with the hope of reaching an agreement by the end of the year.
| The Israeli violence, however, wasn't the result of the talks. The Islamic Jihad violence, on the other hand, is an attempt to derail any talks and to negate any agreements that may be reached. |
It also came on the heels of US President George W Bush's visit to the region aimed at garnering Arab support for the peace process.
| Therefore George Bush shot Walid Abeidi, if only by proxy. Good proxy shootin', G.W.! |
Since November, more than 115 Palestinians, most of them militants, have been killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip alone, according to an AFP count.
| If most of them were militants, then the IDF would seem to be being careful about collateral damage, wouldn't they? |
Today's death brings to 6070 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP tally.
| And the vast majority of the Paleostinians bumped off hard boyz. |
Posted by: tipper 2008-01-16 |
