Israelis Kill Islamic Jihad Leader

(Nablus, Israel) Today, Israeli Defense Forces killed Hamad Abu Sharif, the head of the armed Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. Scratch one terrorist.

From Aljazeera.net:

Palestinian security sources said that Hamad Abu Sharif, chief of the Al-Quds Brigades, was gunned down by troops in the old town of Nablus in the north of the West Bank early on Monday.

An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the death of a fighter, saying: "Soldiers operating in the old town opened fire on armed men killing one of them."

Hopefully, the Al-Quds Brigades will be disrupted in their murderous campaign by the loss of a boss.

On a different note, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been keeping a running total of deaths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since September 2000. I think it's interesting that four-fifths of about 5000 deaths have been Palestinians.