 The bullet-riddled body of a Palestinian was found near a trash bin on a Gaza City street Saturday, and Hamas said it killed the man on suspicion he passed along information that helped Israel assassinate the group's founder and nine others. Also Saturday, five Tunisian doctors were en route to the West Bank to examine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who has the flu. A Tunisian diplomat said Arafat is recovering, and that the exam is a precaution. Palestinian militants have killed dozens of alleged informants in the West Bank, but such attacks have been rare in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian security services still function to some degree. Hassan Musallam, in his 20s, had been missing for several days. His body was found two days after Israel killed the deputy chief of the Hamas military wing, Adnan al-Ghoul, in an airstrike. The secretive Al-Ghoul, a top bombmaker and weapons engineer, had been on Israel's most-wanted list since 1990. The Hamas military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, said Musallam was interrogated and "provided us with information and details about the way he assisted the Zionist enemy in carrying out the crimes of assassination." |