Palestinian Security Officer Killed in Israeli Helicopter AttackTwo Israeli helicopters fired rockets at a car near the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a Palestinian security officer and injuring four others.The man killed was identified as Massoud Ayyad, 50, a senior officer in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Force-17 Guard and an activist of the Palestinian mainstream Fatah movement led by Arafat. The Palestinians described the attack as an assassination, saying that the operation was part of the Israeli policy of liquidating Palestinian security officers in an attempt to end the Palestinian Intifada (uprising). There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army. Some 20 Palestinian militants have been killed in Israeli pin- point strikes in recent months. In the more than four months of clashes between Israeli troops and the Palestinians, nearly 400 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed. |
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