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Palestinian claims that the fugitives were responsible for planning last week’s attack on Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, in which gunman Ala Abu Dhaim killed eight students, were flatly denied by Israeli security officials, who added that the troops had not planned to kill the fugitives.
Muhammad Shehadeh, 45, Ahmed Balbul, 48, Amad el-Kamel, 35 and Issa Zohara, 36, were all in direct contact with Islamic Jihad’s leadership in Syria and were following orders issued by the organization’s leaders there.
Shehadeh has been wanted by Israel for the past eight years for involvement in planning and executing terror attacks in which Israelis were killed and wounded.
*update* apparently it’s a fact that Muhammad Shahade was killed but whether he was behind the Jerusalem seminary attack is still up for debate.
Yahoo news is also saying that he was the leader of “Islamic Jihad” in Bethlehem.
Palestinian security officials said one of the dead was the commander of Islamic Jihad in the Bethlehem area, Mohammed Shehadeh, and two others were also members of Islamic Jihad. The fourth belonged to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah.
One more cockroach snuffed from existence
Palestinian sources reported Wednesday that at least three Palestinians were killed during an IDF raid in Bethlehem, including Muhammad Shahade, believed to be the one who engineered the attack on Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, last Thursday.
Isa Marzuka and Ahmed Balbul, two Islamic Jihad operatives, were reportedly killed in the clash as well, as was an operative of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the Fatah’s military wing. (Ali Waked)
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