Sharjah24 – AFP: A Palestinian militant was killed Sunday in an explosion in the occupied West Bank, police said, with Israel staying silent on allegations from fighters that it was behind his assassination.
Tamer al-Kilani was killed overnight in the Old City of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
A Palestinian police inspector said that Kilani was killed in an explosion in Nablus, where the Lions' Den militant group has emerged in recent months.
The group described Kilani as one of its "fiercest fighters" and blamed Israel for his death overnight.
"The treacherous occupation (Israel) put a sticky TNT device as the way to assassinate" Kilani, the group wrote on Telegram.
Palestinians gathered on Sunday around the charred remains of a motorbike that was allegedly laden with explosives.
At Nablus's Rafidia Hospital, Kilani's mother and sister stood over his body.
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