Israel confirms killing Arafat deputy in '88

Aron Heller, Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

Standfirst: "Israel’s military censor approved the release of the information, effectively amounting to acknowledgement of the kill." And: "only now has the country’s military censor cleared the Yediot Ahronot daily to publish the information, including an interview with the commando who killed him, at least 12 years after the newspaper obtained the information."

Context added by this archive

A killing in 1988, cleared for publication in 2012.

Cite this item

"Israel confirms killing Arafat deputy in '88," Roanoke Times, 2 November 2012. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2012-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2012-001

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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