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Bethlehem after xmas Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=364542&dir=75&host=3 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=364542&dir=75&host=3 Eight killed as Israeli troops move back into Bethlehem By Eric Silver in Jerusalem 27 December 2002 The Israeli army went back into Bethlehem yesterday and reimposed a curfew it had lifted before Christmas. In operations across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops earlier shot dead seven Palestinian fighters and a teenage bystander. Five soldiers were wounded in gun battles, one seriously. The fiercest fighting was in the Qabatiya refugee camp, near Jenin. Hamsa Abu Roub, an Islamic Jihad commander, opened fire on soldiers who had come to arrest him. A neighbour reported that after a heavy exchange, the Israelis threw grenades, then rushed in and shot him dead. A military spokesman said the soldiers called on non-combatants to surrender. After his wife and children had done so, Mr Abu Roub, 40, came out shooting. Army engineers returned later and demolished the house. The spokesman said Mr Roub, an explosives expert, was behind a series of attacks in northern Israel. Security forces also shot dead a leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Tulkarm; a Hamas activist and an unarmed passer-by in Ramallah; and two wanted Tanzim fighters in Nablus. Sentries shot dead two armed men as they tried to infiltrate the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

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