A Palestinian military adviser was killed on Friday at his home in the occupied West Bank by unidentified assailants, according to the Palestinian Authority.
Talal Dwaikat, a spokesman for the Palestinian security services, said that "unidentified persons shot the legal adviser for the military treasury, Ikrima Muhanna, 44, killing him on the spot," the official Wafa news agency said.
Preliminary information suggested that the attackers killed Muhanna while he was inside his home in Deir al-Ghusun town in Tulkarem.
*Writing by Mahmoud Barakat