Israeli troops have shot dead a militant linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction during a tank raid in the West Bank this morning.
Israeli forces swept into a neighbourhood in eastern Jenin before dawn this morning and surrounded a house, where a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an off-shoot of Arafat's Fatah movement, apparently hiding.
The Israeli military says its soldiers killed the man when he tried to escape. Palestinian security sources identified the dead man as Amjad Muhammad al-Saadi (28).
Today's raid followed an Israeli incursion yesterday into the West Bank city of Ramallah in which troops killed four Palestinians, including a six-year-old boy.
The latest violence cast a shadow over an unofficial peace efforts in Geneva, getting under way after three years of bloodshed. The international community has hailed the plan drawn up by self-appointed Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, but Israel and Palestinian militants have condemned it.
Efforts are also under way to revive an official US-backed peace "road map".