January 8, 2004

IDF undercover troops fatally shoot AMB mbr. As‘ad Falah Khaliliyya in an apparent assassination in Jenin. The IDF also stages arrest raids in Qalqilya, in and around Ramallah; demolishes 2 Palestinian homes in Rafah. In Gaza, 5 armed, masked Fatah mbrs. detain, beat an al-Arabiyya TV correspondent. (REU, PCHR 1/8; HA 1/9; HA, PR 1/14; PCHR 1/15)