March 25, 2003

In an apparent assassination, IDF undercover units ambush, fire on a car in Bethlehem, fatally shooting 3 Hamas mbrs. (2 of them, Nadir Jarawish and Ala’ Ayad, targets), 1 10-yr.-old bystander, wounding 3 bystanders. The IDF also fatally shoots a stone-throwing 13-yr.-old Palestinian in Jenin; conducts arrest raids in Jenin, nabbing local tanz im leader Nidal Narnarya, 18 others; conducts house-to-house searches in Kubar. (HA 3/25; GS, NYT 3/26; NYT, PCHR 3/27; LAW 3/28)