The director of Palestinian Television was killed in a restaurant in the Gaza Strip when three masked men walked up to his table and shot him repeatedly in the head and chest. Hisham Miki, 54, was very close to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and was a member of Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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