Israeli troops shot dead a fugitive leader of Hamas's military wing in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. An official in the security services of Abbas's Palestinian Authority said they had long wanted to question Dudin but had not been involved in tracking him down and killing him.
Dudin, 45, was jailed by Palestinians after Israel accused him of planning two suicide bombings on buses in 1995, the army spokesman said. He was released from a jail in the West Bank city of Jericho when a Palestinian uprising began in 2000.