Last update - 20:22 18/04/2008
IDF kills militant leader wanted in plot to poison Ramat Gan
restaurant
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Tags: IDF, West Bank, Al-Aqsa
Israel Defense Forces troops operating in the West Bank killed a
senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade accused of devising a recent
plot to poison diners at a Ramat Gan restaurant.
The man killed was named as Hani Al-Kabi, the local commander of
Al-Aqsa in the Balata refugee camp who together with about a dozen
militants
fled a Palestinian jail three months ago. The militants accused Israel of
reneging on an amnesty deal by which they were supposed to serve time in
Palestinian jail.
Meanwhile, Palestinian militants fired two rockets at the western
Negev from Gaza on Friday, both of which struck open areas. There were no
re****ts of casualties or property damage.
Gaza militants fired 17 rockets at Israel on Thursday, including a
Grad Katyusha, none of which caused casualties. An improved Qassam rocket
hit an open area near the southern town of Netivot, and a rocket launched
toward Ashkelon caused the "Color Red" warning system to be sounded.
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and Kibbutzim bordering on the Gaza Strip were also targeted in the rocket
attacks.
Kabi, the Al-Aqsa leader killed on Friday, was wanted for several
attacks that were thwarted, including a recent attempted poisoning at a
restaurant, and for a shooting in which two soldiers were wounded, the
army
said. Al Aqsa denied that Kabi was involved in the poisoning plot.
Witnesses said soldiers surrounded the Kabi's hideout in Balata and
called on him to surrender.
He refused, and the troops opened fire on the building, witnesses
said.
Kabi - whose group is an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas's Fatah faction - was killed, medical officials said. A member of
another Palestinian faction, Islamic Jihad, was also in the building and
was
wounded and arrested.
An IDF spokeswoman confirmed there had been an operation in Balata
in
which one militant was killed and another captured. Troops arrested
another
10 wanted militants in overnight raids on Nablus-area villages.
IDF forces frequently raid West Bank towns in search of militants
suspected of involvement in attacks against Israelis.
The operation indicated an Israeli-Palestinian understanding on
security in the city was unraveling.
Israel had earlier this year agreed to the deployment in the city of
Palestinian security forces allied with moderate President Mahmoud Abbas.
But IDF troops have continued to operate in the militant stronghold almost
nightly.
Nablus is considered a test case for plans for further deployments
of
Palestinian forces around the West Bank.
On Thursday, IDF soldiers killed one Palestinian militant and
wounded
another near the Kerem Shalom Gaza-Israel border crossing, foiling an
attempted infiltration and attack.
The renewed violence followed a day of fighting between IDF forces
and
Gaza militants that killed three Israeli soldiers and 21 Palestinians,
including five children and a news cameraman.
Meanwhile, Israel has imposed a complete closure on the West Bank
and
Gaza for the duration of the Passover holiday.
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