Israel storms prison to seize Palestinian militant

Reuters: Israeli forces blasted their way into a West Bank prison on Tuesday to try to seize a top Palestinian militant accused of killing an Israeli minister, storming in after U.S. and British monitors withdrew.

A guard and a prisoner were killed in clashes at Jericho prison, housing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ahmed Saadat and five other senior militants held under foreign supervision for four years.

Khaled Meshaal, leader-in-exile of the militant Hamas group that will form the next Palestinian government, urged Palestinians to rally around the jail and warned Israel against harming Saadat.

Protests surged across Palestinian territories, with most anger directed at Britain and the United States. Militants set ablaze the British cultural centre and stormed the EU-compound in Gaza, threatening to kidnap and kill foreigners.

Israel's highest profile raid for months came two weeks ahead of a general election and added to tension as Hamas Islamic militants tried to put together a government. Hamas accused the Israeli government of a pre-election stunt. Read more

db: Israeli elections coming - it's time for some UK/US sanctioned terror. BBC Worldservice reports truck loads of Palestinians stripped of clothing and loaded onto trucks. Sounds like....