Leaders of Yasser Arafat’s mainstream Fatah movement demanded the resignation of the head of Palestinian intelligence services in the West Bank town of Ramallah after a violent clash there. In the first Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence since The Wye River Memorandum was signed last Friday at the White House, Fatah members clashed Sunday with Palestinian security officials, who had attempted to collect unlicensed weapons. One Palestinian youth died after being shot twice in the head during the clash. The Fatah leaders also demanded that those responsible for the shooting be executed.
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