Sun 4 July, 2004 05:45
At least one Palestinian gunman has shot and killed an Israeli man in an ambush on his car in the West Bank. An army spokesman said the man’s wife, who had been accompanying him, was not injured but was being treated for shock. The shooting occurred early Sunday morning on a road in the Jenin area of the northern West Bank, between the Jewish settlements of Mevot Dotan and Shaked, a military source said. The Israeli man had died at the scene.
A local militant group, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the shooting. In a statement the group said the attack was revenge for Israel’s killings of seven of their leaders in a raid last week in the West Bank city of Nablus. A Palestinian witness said he saw two gunmen open fire on the Israeli car accompanied by a bus, as they passed along the road near the village of Yabed. Soldiers launched searches in Yabed for the gunmen, witnesses and a military source said. |