United Nations Official Killed in Jenin -Witnesses

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United Nations Official Killed in Jenin -Witnesses

A senior official working for a United Nations relief agency was shot dead in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, Palestinian hospital officials said.

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A senior official working for a United Nations relief agency was shot dead in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, Palestinian hospital officials said.

A Reuters cameraman saw the body of the man, an Irish national, after a gun battle broke out in the area between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen. Doctors said he worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) in the refugee camp.

Palestinian doctors said he was killed by gunfire while working in his office in the northern part of the camp, and said another UNWRA official was thought to have been wounded. An UNRWA spokesman did not comment.

There was heavy gunfire in the refugee camp on Friday during an Israeli military operation to seize an Islamic Jihad militant behind a suicide bombing in October which killed 14 people.

Military sources said Israeli forces were involved in an exchange of fire with Palestinian gunmen in the area.

Source: agenices

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