Israeli troops killed a Fatah fugitive. Military sources said the Al-Aksa Brigade member was shot on the roof of his house outside Hebron on Sunday after refusing to come out and be arrested. Al-Aksa is the terrorist wing of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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