IDF Kills Wanted Palestinian
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a wanted Palestinian terror suspect near the West Bank town of Jenin Tuesday morning. The militant, 27-year-old Nabil Hanani, reportedly opened fire on troops who surrounded his home and called for his surrender. Hanani was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a so-called "military wing" of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. There were no Israeli casualties in the operation. Meanwhile in Gaza, Israeli aircraft bombed a home believed to be covering a tunnel used by Palestinians to smuggle arms from Egypt. In an unrelated incident, a pregnant Palestinian woman died at an Israeli military checkpoint outside the West Bank town of Nablus Tuesday morning. Officials told Ha'aretz, the woman, in her third month of pregnancy and showing no signs of premature labor, told the soldiers she was not feeling well and needed help. Army medics began to treat her immediately, and called a Palestinian ambulance to the scene. Despite their efforts, the woman died of unknown causes. The driver of the Palestinian ambulance attempted to head off any accusations that the woman had died as a result of being stopped at the checkpoint. "No one is guilty in this death since the woman arrived at the checkpoint in serious condition," Eyad Alkam was quoted as saying.
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