A militant group affiliated with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction claimed responsibility for killing an Israeli near the West Bank town of Jenin this morning.
A member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said in a phone call to Reuters that its gunmen carried out the ambush, the latest incident in an upsurge of violence.
Palestinian militants called off a truce last month after Israel killed a Hamas leader in Gaza following a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 21.
