Israeli forces killed an Islamic Jihad terrorist in the West Bank. The 28-year-old fugitive was killed in a clash in Nablus on Thursday as Israel intensified its search for the planners of this week’s Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Netanya. In the Palestinian village of Atil, believed to be the hiding place of the groupìs top terrorist in the West Bank, soldiers conducted house-to-house searches.
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