Israeli forces kill Hamas militant in West Bank

More of the same between the Israelis and Palestinians… TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

BEIT AWWA, West Bank (AFP) – Israeli forces on Monday killed a wanted Hamas operative who had holed up in a house in the southern West Bank, police and the army said.

A team comprised of border police, soldiers and members of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence, “eliminated Ali Suweiti,” a border police spokesman said.

The army said the force surrounded the house in Beit Awwa where Suweiti had holed up and urged him to surrender. He refused “and opened fire at the forces” who returned fire, the army said in a statement.

“The terrorist continued to fire at the force, and was ultimately killed.”

Villagers carried away the body.

Suweiti, who was born in 1968, “was a member of a Hamas militant squad” and executed five shooting attacks and an explosive device attack between 1999 and 2004, the army said.

In one of the attacks in April 2004 he killed a border policeman in the West Bank, it added.

Hamas, an armed Islamist group sworn to the destruction of Israel, has carried out scores of deadly attacks and is blacklisted as a terrorist organisation by Israel and the West.

The group, which rules the Gaza Strip, blamed Monday’s operation on Israel and security forces loyal to the Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, calling it the “repulsive fruit of security coordination.”

“The assassination of this Qassam commander is a dangerous crime, which comes in the context of the occupation’s determination to eliminate the forces of the resistance, and especially the Qassam Brigades in the West Bank,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, referring to the group’s armed wing.

“The martyr was targeted by Abbas’s forces, just as he was targeted by the Zionist occupation,” he added in a statement from the group’s Gaza enclave.

Hamas seized power in Gaza in June 2007 after routing Abbas’s forces in a week of bloody street battles, limiting his authority to the occupied West Bank and cleaving the Palestinians into hostile rival camps.

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