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Gunmen kill key Arafat adviser
Expands on last night's post...Unknown gunmen have shot dead a key adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat outside his office in Gaza City. Khalil al-Zaben, a prominent journalist who also advised Mr Arafat on human rights, was struck by a dozen bullets, local Palestinian sources said.
quick, let's change the subject to the zionists .... In Gaza, Mr Zaben died soon after being brought to hospital following the shooting just before midnight. Mr Arafat himself led the tributes to the 59-year-old veteran journalist who ran a Palestinian Authority-funded magazine. "The assassination is an abject act which targeted a great Palestinian figure who was working for the national interest and that of his people," Mr Arafat told reporters. Palestinian officials have not commented on a possible motive. or more importantly, which group challenged Arafat's hold on power this way The local union of journalists has also condemned the attack and demanded an inquiry. "We strongly condemn the assassination of veteran journalist Khalil al-Zaben and urge the Palestinian Authority to intervene immediately to find the perpetrators," said Tawfiq Abu Khoussa, deputy chairman of the Palestinian Journalists' Union. AP news agency reports that Mr Zaben became an Arafat ally in the 1960s and returned to Gaza along with the Palestinian leader and other exiles in 1994, under the terms of Israeli-Palestinian interim peace accords. Two of his brothers are Palestinian ambassadors in South America and his son works as an airline pilot there, the agency says. He is also survived by his wife and three daughters.
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