They're coming out of the toilet now.
Posted on 11/21/2004 11:18:53 AM PST by yonif
A top Palestinian fugitive and two other Palestinians were killed Sunday evening in a gun battle with an elite Israel Police anti-terror unit (Yamam) near Beituniya north of Jerusalem.
One of the policemen was lightly wounded in the battle and taken to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
Police had entered Beituniya, which is south of Ramallah, to arrest Mohammed Ghassan Sheikh, a member of the Fatah armed wing, the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades (AKA the Yasser Arafat Martyrs' Brigades), who had been hiding out in Yasser Arafat's Mukata headquarters in Ramallah over a long period.
Ghassan was killed just hours after he left the Mukata on Sunday.
The anti-terror Police unit reached Beituniya and spotted Sheikh in a car with two others.
According to Israeli security officials, the fugitives opened fire on the Police unit and the gun battle ensued.
Mohammed Ghassan Sheikh and two others traveling in the car with him were killed in the ensuing gun battle.
Sheikh was recently trying to rejuvenate Fatah's infrastructure in Ramallah.
He was involved in numerous shooting attacks in the past, security officials said.
In the last two years of his life, Yasser Arafat was kept a virtual prisoner in his Ramallah headquarters, where he hosted numerous Palesitinian fugitives wanted by Israel.
Early Sunday morning IDF soldiers killed one terrorist at the Kisufim crossing in southern Gaza, thwarting a likely terror attack.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the foiled attack.
Givati soldiers identified two terrorists who had hidden themselves in an abandoned building by the Kisufim crossing, the main entry checkpoint into Gush Katif.
The soldiers opened fire on the infiltrators, killing one of them and wounding the second, who managed to flee. IDF troops are searching for the escaped terrorist, who they believed was heading in the direction of Khan Younis.
The road was closed down to traffic Sunday morning while soldiers conducted searches in the area, Army Radio reported.
Sources in the IDF surmised that the would-be terrorists intended to shoot at soldiers or towards Israeli vehicles driving through the area, Israel Radio reported.
In recent months 32 terrorists directly involved in planning and perpetrating attacks against Israel have been killed by IDF forces.
NEXT!!!!!
"A top Palestinian fugitive and two other Palestinians were killed Sunday"
You have to admire Israel and its security forces.
Eventually a cornered rat has to come out.
They're coming out of the toilet now.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Hehehe. Being a member of Fatah is a dangerous occupation. It WILL get you killed. Parley
Allahu Fubar!
[singing] "yesterday was the last day of the rest of his life..."
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