Friday, September 17, 2010

Wanted Hamas member killed

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A wanted Hamas operative was killed overnight in an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, the military said Friday.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli military told CNN that Israeli soldiers were on a mission to apprehend Palestinian Iyad Shilbayeh for suspicions of involvement in recent "terror activity" in a town near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Shilbayeh ran toward the Israeli soldiers with his hands behind his back in a suspicious manner and continued to advance despite calls for him to stop, according to the spokeswoman. It was at this point that Israeli soldiers opened fired the spokeswoman told CNN.

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