April 23, 2004

The IDF fatally shoots 3 wanted AMB mbrs. in Qalqilya in an apparent assassination, injuring a 4th; arrests a Palestinian woman in Hebron who allegedly attempted to stab a soldier; conducts arrest raids in Jenin and Qalqilya, nr. Tulkarm; fires on residential areas of Rafah. In an apparent botched assassination, the IDF raids a village outside Nablus, fatally shoots 1 Palestinian whom it claims was an armed Hamas mbr. who had fired on the troops while attempting to avoid arrest; local Palestinians say the man killed, ‘Amr Abu Laymun, was an unarmed college professor with no affiliation to Hamas. (AFP 4/23; NYT, WP, WT 4/24; PR 4/28; PCHR 4/29)