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[Published: Friday September 17 2010]

Israeli forces kill West Bank Hamas commander

Tel Aviv, 17 Sept-(ANA)-Israeli forces have shot dead a local Hamas military commander in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Iyad Shilbaya, a commander of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was killed during a raid to arrest him, the Israeli military said.

Hamas's military wing said it was responsible for the killing at the end of August of four Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

It is not clear whether Shilbaya was a suspect in these killings.

Since the killing of the four Jewish settlers, Palestinian and Israeli security forces have arrested scores of Hamas supporters across the West Bank.

Twelve other Palestinians were arrested in the overnight operation.

Hamas is opposed to the US-sponsored talks, launched in Washington on 2 September, between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas. (ANA)

FA/ANA/17 September 2010----------

 


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