I was getting ready to go to bed and this item pops up. I couldn't resiist the temptation to share the unexpected news with you
Jun. 30, 2003 Fatah-linked group violates cease-fire, killing Romanian worker (UPDATE) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Romanian construction worker was killed Monday in a Palestinian shooting attack in the West Bank, only a day after the three largest Palestinian factions said they would observe a temporary truce, the Israeli military said.
The Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, a militia affiliated with Yasser Arafat's ruling Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the shooting near the West Bank village of Yabed.
"We do not agree with the cease-fire," a group of militiamen from the West Bank town of Jenin said in a statement. "This is our first action. This is the beginning."
The militia consists of bands of gunmen who do not recognize a central authority _ unlike the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the other signatories to the three-month truce.
The victim was a Romanian worker involved in road construction by Israel. The worker was driving in a truck when he was shot in the head, the army said.
Palestinians have carried out dozens of shootings on West Bank roads in the past 33 months of fighting.