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PA daily accuses Israel of “assassinating” terrorist who killed 3 in Tel Aviv

Headline: “A special Israeli force assassinated Nashat Melhem, who carried out the Tel Aviv operation”
An Israeli ‘commando’ force assassinated young Nashat Melhem, who carried out the Tel Aviv operation (i.e., terror attacks that killed 3), yesterday [Jan. 8, 2016] during an exchange of gunfire in the village of Arara in the triangle (i.e., a concentration of Israeli Arab towns in the center of Israel, east of the Sharon area), after a full week of intense, incessant searches.”
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Nashat Melhem - 29-year-old Israeli Arab terrorist who carried out a shooting attack, killing 2 Israelis, Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi, and wounding 8 others, at Hasimta bar in Tel Aviv on Jan. 1, 2016. Melhem fled the scene, and later that day killed a taxi driver, Bedouin Israeli Amin Shaaban, in another part of Tel Aviv. A week after the attacks, on Jan. 8, 2016, Israeli security forces tracked down Melhem in a building in his hometown of Arara in the north of Israel. After Melhem opened fire at them, the Israeli security forces shot and killed him.

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