A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction was gunned down near his home in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. Israel’s army had no immediate comment, but Palestinian officials claimed that Thabet Thabet was the victim of an Israeli assassination squad.
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