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| By israelinsider staff June 15, 2004 |
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Khalil Marshoud, 24, commander of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, was killed along with two other Palestinians when an IAF missile hit his car at the camp entrance. A security official told Israel Radio that Marshoud was responsible for more than twenty terror attacks against Israelis. Repeated arrest attempts had failed.
"After repeated efforts to arrest the terrorist were to no avail, the IDF acted in order to thwart future attacks," the army said in a statement. "The IDF will continue to operate against anyone who is involved in terrorist activities."
The two other Palestinians killed in the attack were identified as Awad Abu-Zeid and Mohammed Al-Assi. Abu-Zeid was reportedly a taxi driver who was transporting Marshoud while Al-Assi was reportedly a member of Islamic Jihad.
Marshoud became the leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade organization in Balata after Israeli security forces killed Nader Abu-Lil and Hashem Abu-Hamdan in a previous operation at the beginning of May.
Among other terror activities, Marshoud is suspected of involvement in dispatching a suicide bomber into Jerusalem at the beginning of June (an attack which was thwarted by security forces) and the planned dispatch of a car bomb with some 100 kilograms of explosives at the beginning of May.
A senior Fatah official said in response to the attack that "with this assassination, Israel has put an end to any possibility of calm. From now on, any cease-fire agreement will not obligate the organization, which will avenge the killings of its officials."
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