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Al-Azhar University in Gaza City has been shut down after gunmen belonging to the ruling Fatah party beat the institution's president and some of his aides. The attack took place on Wednesday when some 20 gunmen stormed the offices of university president Dr. Adnan al-Khaldi and forced him to flee after assaulting him. Eyewitnesses said the attackers also dragged an employee from the university's public relations department and dumped him outside the campus. The attack was not the first of its kind on the university. Earlier this year another Fatah group stormed the campus and threatened to lynch the university...

Al-Khalil, April 29, IRNA -- The Israeli occupation army on Tuesday murdered two Palestinian resistance fighters in two separate attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the first incident, two Israeli helicopters fired hell-fire air-to-ground missiles at the car of Nidal Salameh, an activist affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, killing him immediately. The missiles reduced the car into charred, twisted metals. Another person who was traveling with Salameh was badly in injured in the attack. In the village of Khadr, west of Bethlehem, the Israeli army assassinated Mahmoud Salah, a local head of...