Israeli commandos killed a terrorist in the first Israeli army raid on Jericho in months. The target of Sunday’s operation on the normally quiet West Bank city was Shahdi Melhem of the Al Aksa Brigade, a terrorist group within Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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