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Israeli troops killed a senior leader of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad Wednesday. The Israeli Soldiers were trying to arrest Walid Obeidi a militant in the group Islamic Jihad when they were met with gunfire and fired back, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. The soldiers killed Obeidi and arrested another militant after the gun battle in the northern West Bank. Walid Obeidi led the military wing of the extremist Islamic Jihad in the West Bank. Palestinian eyewitnesses said "Israeli troops surrounded the house at 3 a.m in which Obeidi was hiding. As soon as Obeidi came out, a heavy gun battle broke out. As a result Obeidi was killed."

A day prior to this incursion, Israel carried out another raid in [|Gaza] that left at least 19 terrorists dead. The dead included Mahmoud al-Zahar, the son of a senior official of [|**Hamas**]. Hamas is a militant group that has took control of the government in Gaza. Also Hamas has been in a power struggle with there rivals Fatah group. Fatah is another terrorist organization that occupize in Gaza and a little in the West Bank. Mahmoud al-Zahar died after an Israeli aircraft fired into a car that approached soldiers, according to Hamas security and medical sources As Tuesday's Israeli operation in northern Gaza was under way, a terrorist sniper near the Gaza border shot and killed a civilian kibbutz farmer, a volunteer from Ecuador. He was shot while he was working the fields in Israel, according to the [|**Israel**] Defense Forces. There is a huge difference between killing terrorist trying to disrupt the way you live and killing a civilian farmer that is tending his fields.

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