The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Damascusbased terrorist group headed by George Habash, claimed responsibility today for the murder yesterday of an Israeli soldier, Corp. Aharon Avidar, in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
A PFLP statement from Damascus said one of its units attacked a group of Israeli soldiers, killed one and wounded others. But Avidar was murdered by a lone gunman who fired a single shot at him as he stood guard at the gate to the government offices compound in downtown Ramallah. The killer escaped in the crowded streets.
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