They Jihad to Go
Does it matter what Fatah and Hamass agree, or don’t agree, to? As long as Islamic Jihad et al remain free to shell and murder with impunity?
Well, maybe not impunity:
Israeli forces killed two Islamic Jihad leaders and their driver in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, drawing vows of revenge for the ambush in Jenin.
Keeping pressure on militants elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers moved back into Nablus and clamped a curfew on thousands of people, a day after residents said the army had ended a raid — the biggest in months — that began on Saturday.
Near Jenin’s refugee camp, an Israeli undercover unit ambushed a car in which Ashraf al-Saadi, described by Islamic Jihad as a commander in its armed wing in the West Bank, was traveling.
Witnesses said Saadi was wounded by Israeli gunfire and two other men in the vehicle, Mohammed Abu Naaseh and driver Ala al-Breiky, were killed outright. Saadi fled on foot and fired a pistol, but was shot dead by the plainclothed unit after falling to the ground, the witnesses told Reuters.
“Israeli forces came to arrest the wanted men. Saadi spotted the unit, took out a pistol and fired at it, wounding a (paramilitary) border policeman. The force fired back, killing the three men,” an Israeli military spokesman said.
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Israeli security sources said Saadi had cooperated with senior Islamic Jihad members involved in suicide bombings in Israel in 2005 and 2006. The sources described Abu Naaseh as a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Jenin refugee camp.
Or, as the Palestinian media put it, “assassinate”.
Of course, Palestinian media are notoriously fickle.