Israeli bulldozers entered a major West Bank city to remove a memorial to a Palestinian assailant Friday, sparking clashes in which six Palestinians were wounded, the army and a local mayor said. The memorial to Khaled Nazzal, a high profile Palestinian fighter who was the architect of a 1974 attack that killed 26 Israelis - the majority school children - was recently erected by the municipality of Jenin.
Many Palestinians see Nazzal and other fighters as heroes, while Israel views them as terrorists and says that glorifying their attacks is incitement to terrorism. Nazzal was allegedly assassinated by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Athens in 1986." Israel had demanded the memorial be removed and before dawn on Friday bulldozers and soldiers entered Jenin.
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