Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant
Israeli troops killed an Islamic Jihad Palestinian militant early today in a raid on a village near the West Bank town of Jenin, the army said.
Troops entered the village of Nazlat al-Wusta in the early hours of the morning and surrounded the house of the man.
After calling on him to surrender several times the troops sent a dog in to flush him out. When the fugitive shot and killed the dog, the troops destroyed the building, killing the man inside, the army said.
In searches of the rubble the soldiers found the man’s body and a pistol, the military said. The militant was not identified.
Media reports said the man was behind the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing that killed five Israelis.
At a summit last month in which Israeli and Palestinian leaders declared a halt to the violence, Israel said it would not target Palestinian militants unless they were just about to carry out an attack.
Ending these raids is a major condition of the Palestinian militant groups for abiding by a commitment to halt the violence.
