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RAMALLAH, West Bank - An armed offshoot of the mainstream Fatah movement claimed responsibility Tuesday for the killing of a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel in the Ramallah region of the West Bank. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said in a statement that a group of their activists had shot dead Tahsin Arqub for “participating with Israeli special forces in the murder or capture of wanted Palestinians.” The 52-year-old’s death was confirmed by police and hospital sources in Ramallah. Witnesses said that Arqub, who worked as a taxi driver, had been abducted by a group of armed men on Monday...

Masked Palestinian gunmen killed two Palestinian men suspected of collaborating with Israel on Thursday before displaying their bodies in the central square of the Tulkarem refugee camp, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said. The two men were abducted two weeks ago with six other men in a kidnapping planned by two militant groups, the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade and Islamic Jihad. The men were suspected of giving away the hideout of a wanted Al Aqsa militant, Palestinian security sources said. Al Aqsa is loosely affiliated with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. Islamic Jihad, which receives funding from Iran, often...