Undercover Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man on Monday and wounded two others near the West Bank town of Jenin, medics said. According to Reuters, eyewitnesses said the soldiers opened fire on a car headed from the village of Roumane towards Jenin, a northern West Bank city, killing Roumane's council head.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh have achieved a breakthrough in talks that could see the formation of a new unity government within days, a Hamas spokesman claimed. "The talks were very fruitful and positive," Sami Abu Zuhri, the official spokesman for Hamas, said, according to Reuters.
"Big progress has been achieved towards the formation of a government of national unity," he said after the two leaders held several hours of negotiations yesterday in Gaza City.
Abbas and Haniyeh have held a series of stilted talks in recent weeks over the formation of a new government that would see Fatah join Hamas.
"Progress has been made and may be followed shortly by practical arrangements towards the formation of a new government," Abu Zuhri added.
