Israeli troops on West Bank raid kill Hamas man, say he had bomb


  • World
  • Wednesday, 10 Jun 2015

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a member of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said.

A spokesman for Israel's paramilitary border police said its troops were in Jenin as part of a predawn operation against suspected militants, when they saw a Palestinian preparing to throw a pipe bomb at them and shot him.

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