Palestinian militants said today they killed a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of Tulkarm for helping Israeli security forces track and kill a member of their group.
The woman was wrenched from her home and shot several times in the head and chest in a square in Tulkarm, Palestinian and hospital sources said.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group linked to President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and on a list of groups the United States considers to be terrorists, said in a phone call it shot the woman yesterday evening.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces today raided the town of Salfit and arrested at least six suspected Palestinian militants in an operation that lasted several hours.
The raid followed an apparent stalemate on an agreement to ease Israel's military clampdown in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in return for a reduction in violence.