Israeli troops killed a Palestinian gunman when they entered a West Bank town near Hebron. In Tuesday’s raid, which lasted about five hours, Israeli soldiers went into the Palestinian-controlled town of Halhoul and arrested a member of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement and a second man belonging to Islamic Jihad, Israeli military officials said.
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