Israeli troops have banged shot dead a member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas. Palestinian security sources said Hisham Khrewesh, 20, was killed during clashes in the Tulkaram refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Wednesday. Gun battles erupted between occupation forces and resistance fighters after 10 Israeli jeeps invaded the area.
"Jeeps! They're driving jeeps!"
"Jeeps, is it? By Gawd, Hisham! Where's my gun?" |
The killing came less than a day after Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus following a 11-day-long invasion. Fifty armoured vehicles and more than 200 troops who had invaded the Old City were seen leaving on Tuesday.
But some houses suspected of sheltering entrances to tunnels used by resistance fighters to hide weaponry were demolished by the Israelis.
| Wonder what caused that effect? Or did it just occur? |
Residents began sifting through the rubble after spending 11 days under a strict curfew. But shortly before they pulled out, troops arrested a "wanted" Palestinian from the Islamic Jihad resistance movement.
"Avner, I had such a good time! What do you say we take a souvenir with us?"
"Like what, Moshe?"
"How 'bout him?" |
Sharif Tahineh, one of the groups leader's in Jenin, named the arrested man as Yahya Mukbul, 27. Six Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli troops since the launch of the operation on 26 December, a day after a bombing near Tel Aviv left four Israelis dead. The bomber was from the village of Bait Furiq near Nablus, and belonged to the secular left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
| Eery, isn't it? It's almost like the two things were related in some way... |
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