Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian activist affiliated with Fatah in a raid early Wednesday, members of the armed group said. The shooting also wounded a senior operative from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the group said. The wounded man, Sufian Kandeel, had recently signed a deal granting him amnesty from Israel, but had not fulfilled several conditions, group spokesman Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh said.
Israel's army said it was checking into the report.
"We signed the list but will not go along with the Israeli conditions and we said ... 'We will not sit in jail and not give in our weapons because they are valuable to us,'" Abu Ghazaleh said, according to the AP. "We don't believe the Israeli government and all that they say."
Witnesses said the Israeli soldiers entered Nablus' Old City disguised in Palestinian security forces uniforms and carrying Kalashnikov rifles typical of the forces, witnesses said. They spoke Arabic to passers-by, asking "how are you," and raising no suspicions as they took positions on rooftops, the witnesses said.
The troops shot toward about a dozen Palestinian activists, some of whom were armed, and wounded Kandeel, who was unarmed, Abu Ghazaleh conveyed. As the Palestinianss tried to evacuate Kandeel, the troops shot again, killing another unarmed man, he said.
Members of the group had said earlier that the two men were armed, but Abu Ghazaleh, who was at the scene of the shooting, said after that they were not.
