Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant in the West Bank. The Al-Aksa Brigade gunman was shot dead by an Israeli undercover unit Wednesday in Balata, a refugee camp near Nablus. In Bethlehem, troops arrested nine terrorist suspects, including members of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction.
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