A 50-year-old Israeli was fatally wounded yesterday by a terrorist in the crowded vegetable market in Jenin. The assailant fled after firing a stagle shot into the back of Avraham Wexler of Tel Haman, near Haifa, who was walking with his wife and daughter and two friends among the fruit and vegetable stalls.
Police said the murder weapon was apparently equipped with a silencer, Wexler collapsed and was rushed to a hospital but was dead on arrival. A curfew was clamped on the West Bank town and several hundred Arabs were detained for questioning. All but seven have been released.
An army spokesman reported last night that 2nd Lt. Amir Weiss, 20 of Jerusalem, has died of wounds he suffered when an Israeli patrol clashed with terrorists at Fassouta near the Lebanese border Sept. 4. Weiss was the third Israeli victim of the encounter in which two Israeli soldiers and two terrorists were killed. A third terrorist was captured.
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