In Gaza, top PA intelligence official, Col. Taysir Khattab, is killed when a remote-controlled bomb in his car explodes--an apparent Israeli assassination; his bodyguard is seriously injured. A bomb in a taxi in Tulkarm kills 1 Palestinian woman, injures 4; no one claims responsibility. The woman reportedly is the wife senior tanzim leader Ahmad Tabuk, who is currently held in a PA jail. (LAW 9/1; AP, NYT, WP, WT 9/2; AKH 9/3, al-Quds 9/5, SA 9/6 in WNC 9/7)
In Durban, 6,000 international NGOs close 5 days of mtgs. on preventing racism, held on the sidelines of the WCAR. Their closing statement calls Israel a "racist, apartheid state," calls on Israel to end its "systematic perpetration of racist crimes," including segregation, separation, dispossession, restricted land access. (SAPA 9/1, 9/2 in WNC 9/4; WP 9/3; MM 9/5; MM 9/5; AKH 9/5 in WNC 9/7; LAW 9/6)