IDF KILLS TWO TERRORISTS IN PA SECURITY CAR

Israeli Airstrike Kills Top Palestinian Fugitive - Arnon Regular and Amos Harel

Fatah commander Hassan Al-Madhoun, 32, and Hamas operative Fawzi Abu al-Qarea, 37, were killed in an Israel Air Force missile strike Tuesday in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip. Madhoun was a top fugitive whom Israel has accused of planning deadly bombings at Ashdod port and the Karni crossing between Gaza and Israel. Ten Israelis were killed in the Ashdod attack in 2004. He was also responsible for attempting to send a female suicide bomber from Gaza to Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center.

The two men were traveling in a car with a red PA security license plate, witnesses said. Ra'anan Gissin, a spokesman for Prime Minister Sharon, said Madhoun and Qarea "were about to go out and prepare a terrorist attack....When there will be a let-up in terrorist attacks, when the Palestinian Authority decides finally to take action against these groups, to disarm them...then we will not have to bring justice to them." (Ha'aretz)