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A special anti-terrorist squad of Israel's border police entered Hebron overnight in what they said was a bid to arrest Abdullah Qawasemeh |
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but ended up killing him when he resisted. |
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They said he was armed and tried to escape. |
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Military officials provided few details of the operation but sources were quoted by Israel Radio as saying it was not a targeted assassination. |
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Palestinians said Israeli troops made no attempts to detain Mr. Qawasemeh and simply gunned him down. |
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They accused Israel of undermining Palestinian efforts to negotiate a truce with Hamas. |
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Abdullah Qawasemeh is accused of having direct responsibility for attacks from suicide bombings to roadside ambushes |
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which have killed more than 40 Israelis including the recent bus bombing in Jerusalem that killed 17. |
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He is said to have recruited some of the suicide bombers used in the attacks from a soccer club he ran in the Hebron area. |
