An investigating committee has identified the killer and some of the accomplices in the killing of Mohiedin Sharif, said Nabil Shaath, a Palestinian Cabinet minister and peace negotiator. "They are people inside Hamas, they are very close to Sharif," Shaath told reporters in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Palestinian officials said five members of Hamas's Izz el-Din al-Qassam military wing were under arrest in connection with the killing and a sixth was still at large.
Hamas rejected the findings as "lies" and renewed threats to avenge Sharif's death. "They told us the same story they gave to the media, which is that they arrested five
Hamas people who are behind the assassination of Sharif," Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas political leader said after Palestinian officials briefed him on the investigation in Gaza City. "We told them that this is an unacceptable story."
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell worked into the night yesterday to complete the draft and deliver it to the eight participating parties, which would cap a 22-month effort to broker a compromise.
Mitchell postponed publishing his document all day in hopes that he could reduce divisions between the north's two biggest parties.
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