Fatah leader shot dead in Nablus

A senior official of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah party was shot dead in the Balata refugee camp, party officials said.

Nasser Badawi, 37, was walking at the entrance to the camp in Nablus last night, when three gunmen in a taxi opened fire, killing him, the officials said.

Badawi was one of the Fatah leaders in the West Bank camp.

There was no indication about who was responsible. The Israeli military said it had no troops in the area at the time of the shooting.

The Balata camp is ruled by competing armed factions of Palestinians, and infighting is not uncommon.