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Israel troops kill senior West Bank militant

Posted on: Sunday, 16 October 2005, 10:54 CDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead a senior Palestinian militant during a clash in the northern West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian witnesses and the Israeli military sources said.

They said Nehad Abu Ghanem, a leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing in the northern West Bank, opened fire on Israeli special forces who cornered him as he was driving his car south of Jenin.

Abu Ghanem, 27, was killed when Israeli troops fired back.

He was the first Islamic Jihad militant killed since Israel killed a top leader from the group and his deputy in an air strike in the Gaza Strip last month after militants launched rockets into the Jewish state.

Palestinian militant groups entered into a tacit ceasefire with Israel early this year, greatly reducing but not entirely halting violence in the run-up to Israel's September 12 pullout from the Gaza Strip.

In separate violence on Sunday, Palestinian militants shot dead three Israelis and wounded five in two drive-by ambushes outside Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Source: REUTERS

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