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Killed un official Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021122_724.html http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021122_724.html U.N. Official Killed in West Bank Senior U.N. Official From Britian Is Shot and Killed During Street Battle in West Bank The Associated Press J E R U S A L E M, Nov. 22 — A senior U.N. official from Britain was shot and killed Friday during an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, doctors and witnesses said. The victim was identified as Ian Hook, 50, who headed a U.N. project to rebuild homes in the battle-scarred camp. An 11-year-old Palestinian boy was also killed and an Irish national wounded in different incidents in the camp, witnesses and a Palestinian human rights group said. Hook and several other U.N. officials were in a small U.N. compound, consisting of several mobile homes, when the fighting erupted, said Sami Mshasha, a U.N. spokesman. At the time, Israeli troops had surrounded a nearby hideout of a wanted Islamic Jihad leader, Abdullah Wahsh, demanding that he surrender. Palestinian gunmen fired at the troops, and an exchange of fire erupted, Palestinian witnesses said. Hundreds of Palestinian youngsters threw stones at the soldiers, who returned fire and called in helicopter gunships, the witnesses said. The U.N. officials in the Jenin camp were on the phone with the Israeli military, trying to arrange the safe evacuation of the U.N. staff, when Hook was killed, Mshasha said. "Several bullets hit the trailer and hit him," Mshasha said. "We managed to send an ambulance to transfer him to the hospital, but he was dead when he reached the hospital." The Jenin Hospital director, Mohammed Abu Ghali, said the bullets retrieved from the victim's abdomen were of the kind generally used by Israeli troops. Israeli military officials confirmed there were exchanges of fire in Jenin camp Friday. The army said it was not clear yet whether the U.N. official was killed by Israeli or Palestinian fire, and that the incident was under investigation. photo credit and caption: Irish Queeva Batterly, 24, is wheeled on a stretcher from a Red Crescent ambulance to the hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin Friday Nov. 22, 2002. Batterly was injured when trying to enter the Jenin refugee camp along with other members of the International Solidarity Movement. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Balas) Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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