Islamic Jihad member killed in Israeli raid
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An Israeli soldier guards Palestinians Wednesday in Ramallah.
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops shot and killed a member of Islamic Jihad during a Wednesday morning raid in a West Bank refugee camp, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
A bystander also was shot, and doctors believe he is clinically dead, Palestinian sources said.
The Islamic Jihad activist was identified as Nazem Mubarak, the Palestinian sources said.
An Israeli military source said Israeli troops entered the Tulkarem refugee camp in search of suspects, including an Islamic Jihad member accused of planning terror attacks. Shots were fired at the soldiers, the source said.
The troops fired toward two men who ran away and refused to stop, said the source. One of the men, the Islamic Jihad member suspected of planning and directing suicide bombings, was hit, the source said.
The shooting came on the same day Israeli troops in Jenin arrested the head of Islamic Jihad's political wing for the West Bank, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
Israel Defense Forces took Bassam al-Saadi, 43, into custody on the streets of the West Bank town without a fight, according to the Palestinian sources.
In addition to al-Saadi, Israeli security forces arrested 14 other wanted Palestinians overnight in the West Bank -- two in Nablus, two in Tulkarem, six in Ramallah, three in Hebron and one in Bethlehem, Israeli military sources said.
Palestinian militant groups, including Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have been trying to push Israeli forces out of the Palestinian territories through the 3-year-long intifada or uprising and by staging suicide attacks in Israel.
The U.S. State Department has designated the two groups as terrorist organizations.
