A day after US Secretary of State Colin Powellâs visit to the region, Israel yesterday vowed to pursue its policy of targeted assassination of Palestinians. âThere will be no immunity for âticking bombsâ,â a source in Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs office said, referring to Palestinian fighters. Hours later, Israeli troops killed a high-ranking Hamas official. Abdullah Qawasmeh, considered the top Hamas official in the West Bank, was killed by an elite army unit which had come to arrest him in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, an Israeli military source said. Qawasmeh tried to flee and was shot dead, the source claimed.
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