Palestinian militant killed in West Bank

Updated: 18:17, Sunday, 30 October 2005

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant has been killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant has been killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.

The killing comes on the same day as the leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said it had agreed a conditional end to rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Khaled al-Batsh said the group would stop firing if Israel stopped what he called its aggression.

The two sides have being trading fire in a week of violence in which fifteen people have been killed.

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