Naval commando killed in clash with Palestinians in Nablus

[bemildred]

This is the blown up apartment block story, only
with more details.

Sgt. Maj. Ra'anan Komemi, a member of the Israel
Defense Forces' elite Naval Commando unit, was
killed before dawn Friday in a gunbattle with
armed Palestinians in the West Bank city of
Nablus. Four other soldiers were wounded in the
incident, one of them seriously.

A senior Hamas bomb-maker,
Mohammed Hanbali, who
orchestrated several fatal
suicide bombings and was
responsible for dozens of
Israeli deaths, was also killed
in the gunbattle.

The army later blew up the
seven-story building where the
incident took place, and some 100 Palestinians
had lived.

Komemi, 23, from Moshav Aminadav near Jerusalem,
was laid to rest at the Mount Herzl military
cemetery in Jerusalem later Friday. Komemi is
the fifth soldier from the Naval Commandos to
be killed in action since the end of the IDF's
Defensive Shield. Six years ago Friday, 13
soldiers from the same unit were killed in an
operation in Lebanon.

Haaretz