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Posted on 10/15/2003 10:26:07 AM PDT by anotherview
Oct. 15, 2003
Troops kill PFLP man at W. Bank checkpoint
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Troops shot and killed a member of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at the village of Enbata near Tulkarm on the West Bank Wednesday.
The Palestinian approached an IDF checkpoint recently set up in the area, and when called on to stop, the man attempted to flee the area. Soldiers opened fire on the man after he again ignored their calls to stop.
Army Radio reported that troops identified the man as a PFLP militant who has been in an Israeli jail in the past.
Elsewhere in Tulkarm, troops at a checkpoint west of the city arrested a Palestinian woman who tried to attack them with a knife.
The woman, a Tulkarm resident, arrived at the checkpoint, pulled out a knife and rushed at soldiers manning the checkpoint. Soldiers drew their weapons on the oncoming attacker, who then fainted just meters in front of the troops.
The woman has been handed over to the General Security Service for questioning.
In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians lobbed grenades at IDF forces near the town of Rafiah on the Israel-Egypt border. There were no injuries in the attack.
The IDF has been operating in Rafiah to expose and destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.
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