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Breaking: Israel snuffs Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brig. Leader in West Bank
Israeli troops killed five Palestinians on Saturday during a raid in this West Bank city, Palestinian officials said. The army has been operating in Nablus since Wednesday in an effort at rooting out Palestinian militants. Nablus, the West Bank's largest city, is a center of militant activity. The army did not immediately comment.

More, from Jerusalem Post...
Paratroopers in determined operations against terrorist infrastructure in the Nablus Casbah killed at least nine Palestinian gunmen and terrorist leaders over the weekend, including five senior commanders in one vicious ambush. There were no serious IDF casualties, but seven soldiers were treated for smoke inhalation after a storeroom with explosives they found caught fire, the army said. During the operation, the IDF troops swept through the Casba, blowing open doors or using sledgehammers to knock them down. Palestinian reports said soldier sealed some alleys with cement blocks and barbed wire to trap the fugitives inside. The army slapped a full curfew on the city since the operation began early Thursday.

Nablus Fatah Tanzim head Nayef Abu Sharkh was shot along with five other Palestinians – all Popular Front and Islamic Jihad senior members by soldiers who arrived at their hiding place, in which the five were holed up. The troops found the terrorists following intelligence gained from an armed Palestinian captured earlier, reported Army Radio. The terrorists killed include Jafer el-Massari, the commander of Hamas' military wing (Izzadin El Kassam) and Fadi Bagit, the commander of the Islamic Jihad's El-Quds (Jerusalem) Platoons. The three were in a secret tunnel behind a bathroom wall, military sources said. One wounded survivor was captured and taken in for medical treatment and interrogation. Paratroopers came upon the hidden room as a result of an earlier clash with two gunmen in the Casba. The troops shot dead one of the gunmen. The other escaped but was observed fleeing into what he thought was a hideaway.
"Boss! Boss! Lemme in! They're after me!"
"Ssssh! Ssssh! Ixnay! Beat it! Go hide someplace else!"
"Saaay, Mahmoud! You havin' a conversation with that wall?"
When the troops approached they discovered a secret room and called on those hiding inside to surrender.
"Come out witcher hands up!"
"You'll never take us alive, infidels!"
"Hokay."
When they refused soldiers tossed inside hand grenades and opened fire with machine guns. It was not clear if the Palestinians fired back. Military sources said that besides the five bodies and the wounded Palestinian, soldiers found inside the hidden room a number of bombs and weapons. A fire began and some soldiers suffered from the smoke and were treated.
Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-26
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