Gunmen shot dead a prominent adviser to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Gaza City on Tuesday, witnesses and medics said. They said unknown assailants gunned down Khalil al-Zebin, 59, a veteran journalist who ran a Palestinian Authority-funded magazine and advised Arafat on human rights and media issues, outside his office in Palestinian-ruled Gaza. Zebin was shot several times shortly after midnight and died soon after arriving at Gaza's Shifa Hospital. Police said they were investigating but no arrests had been made. Zebin was a longtime Arafat loyalist whose monthly magazine focused on the rights of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Palestinian journalists have recently staged protests demanding that the Palestinian Authority investigate a recent series of attacks against them in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "We strongly condemn the assassination of veteran journalist Khalil al-Zebin and urge the Palestinian Authority to intervene immediately to find the perpetrators," said Tawfiq Abu Khoussa, deputy chairman of the Palestinian Journalists Union.
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