A top Palestinian police officer was killed when an unexploded shell fired by Israeli troops exploded as he was trying to defuse it. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Sabawi, head of operations and training in the Palestinian police, was a senior member of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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