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Israeli Arrest Raid in West Bank Kills 4 Palestinians
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"I am sorry if innocent people were hurt today in Ramallah," Olmert said at a news conference with Mubarak, who moments earlier had expressed his "dissatisfaction" with the raid. Olmert added: "One should remember that Israel has to operate against terrorists who operate against innocent Israelis. The operation today was to arrest a wanted man who hurt Israelis."
A second day of partisan fighting in Gaza began when a car carrying members of the Executive Force, a Palestinian security service controlled by the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, came under fire in the city of Beit Lahiya. One Hamas member died in the ambush, and two others were badly wounded.
After nightfall, the Executive Force surrounded the Beit Lahiya home of a senior officer of the Preventive Security Service, a Fatah-controlled branch. The gunmen said the house had been used in the earlier ambush.
Shots rang out as the Executive Force took up positions, and protesters arrived to prevent an attack on the house.
Soon after, the Executive Force opened fire on the house with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Fatah officials said the officer, Col. Mohammed Ghrayeb, was killed in the shooting.
The Associated Press reported later that, in addition to Ghrayeb, four of his guards and a Hamas gunman were killed in the confrontation and about three dozen people, including eight children, were wounded.
Special correspondents Islam Abdel Kareem in Gaza and Sufian Taha in the West Bank contributed to this report.
