Israeli soldiers kill militant meeting Briton

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian militant early today while he was with a British woman in the West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses and the army said.

Soldiers broke into a house where Mohammed Alasi, 24, a local leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, was meeting the woman, who Palestinian witnesses had said was a reporter. Alasi tried to flee, but soldiers shot him dead and took his body, they said.