Israeli Army Assassinates Brother of PFLP Chief

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Israeli Army Assassinates Brother of PFLP Chief

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A special Israeli troops unit assassinated on Tuesday Mohamed Sa'adat, the brother of Ahmed Sa'adat, chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP), Palestinian security officers and witnesses said.

The witnesses and the security officials said the Israeli army special unit entered a house in the center of the West Bank town ofRamallah and shot at Sa'adat. The unit left after confirming that Sa'adat was dead.

The Israeli move came two days after both Israel and the Palestinians reached on Sunday an agreement to implement a gradual Israeli army pullout that begins with the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

The Palestinians said the assassination might undermine the dealand mount violence again between the two sides.

Officials of the PFLP condemned the assassination, saying that killing Sa'adat in a house in Ramallah "would make the group retaliate as soon as possible."

Ahmed Sa'adat has been under Palestinian detention since May 1 in a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho.

His arrest was part of a deal that ended a 34-day Israeli siege imposed on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah.

The Israeli security forces accuse Sa'adat of plotting and planning the assassination of former Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in a hotel in Jerusalem on October 17 last year.

The PFLP said its militants killed Ze'evi in retaliation for Israel's killing of Abu Ali Mustafa at his office in Ramallah in August last year. Following the death of Mustafa, Sa'adat was elected and appointed to replace Mustafa.

Right after the siege was lifted on Arafat's compound, Sa'adat and five other PFLP militants were escorted by British and US officials to a Palestinian National Authority (PNA) prison in Jericho.

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