Palestinian militant killed in West Bank: army
(AFP) – Apr 18, 2008  
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NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) — Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Friday killed a Palestinian militant who had plotted to poison patrons of a restaurant near Tel Aviv, a military spokeswoman said.
Hani al-Kaabi, 26, the local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, was killed in an exchange of fire, the Israeli army and Palestinian security sources said.
Kaabi, who escaped from a Palestinian prison earlier this year, was wanted by Israel for conducting and planning attacks, the military spokeswoman said. She claimed he had masterminded a foiled plot to poison food in a restaurant near Tel Aviv.
Two Palestinians recently arrested in Israel admitted they had planned to use poison that was to be given to them by the Balata unit of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The soldiers arrested Kaabi's number two during Friday's operation in the refugee camp, the spokeswoman said.
The two opened fire from the top of a building surrounded by an army unit that had come to arrest them, the army spokeswoman said.
Palestinian sources said Kaabi was killed by Israeli special forces members disguised as Palestinians.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is an armed group loosely tied to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party.
At least 414 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed since November, when peace talks were restarted at a US-sponsored conference in Annapolis.