Israel kills Palestinian sought in deadly shooting of rabbi

18/1/2018 17:30

        Israeli forces hunting the killers of a rabbi raided a West Bank home before dawn Thursday, killing a wanted Palestinian in a firefight that also wounded two Israeli officers, one seriously.
        
        Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, the raid capped a police and army hunt for the suspect in a drive-by shooting last week that killed a rabbi from an Israeli settlement outpost in the West Bank.
        
        Rosenfeld said, the wanted man was killed and another man was arrested in the raid in the West Bank town of Jenin.
        
        Israeli media identified the wanted man killed in the raid as Ahmed Jarrar, an activist in the Islamic militant group Hamas.
        
        Jarrar's relatives said Israeli forces demolished three homes belonging to the extended family with bulldozers and damaged a fourth one in the process.