Undercover IDF troops from the Duvdevan unit operating in the West Bank refugee camp Askar, near Nablus, arrested Wednesday afternoon a member of the Tanzim organization believed to have been linked to the murder of an Israeli two years ago.

Sultan Sa´ed is thought to have been involved in a shooting attack on walkers at Mount Eval in October 2000, in which Rabbi Benjamin Herling, from the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, was killed.

Also Wednesday, a unit of Paratroopers operating in a town in the Tul Karm area arrested three Islamic Jihad militants, suspected of placing an explosive device close to a West Bank village on Sunday.

An IDF soldier was seriously wounded and an officer was moderately injured in Sunday´s blast. The wounded were from the same unit as the soldiers who carried out the arrest.

Islamic Jihad activist killed in Nablus Earlier in the day, IDF troops shot dead a Palestinian militant from the Islamic Jihad organization who tried to resist capture by running across the rooftops in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, the IDF said. Three other Palestinians were also arrested during the IDF operation in Balata.

Osama Hasan Ali Badra, 27, was killed by the soldiers as he tried to flee above the narrow streets of the crowded refugee camp. Palestinian witnesses also said Badra had tried to resist arrest and was shot dead.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, the IDF arrested three other Islamic Jihad militants in the village of Iqtaba, near Tul Karm. The three are suspected of carrying out the attack against an IDF jeep on Sunday that injured two soldiers.

On Tuesday night, the IDF arrested 34 Palestinians in the territories, including 8 members of Islamic Jihad.

The army also said it had opened an investigation into the killing of a 25-year-old woman by troops on Monday as she took a taxi home at night in violation of a military curfew in Askar refugee camp in Nablus in the northern West Bank. (© Copyright 2002 Ha´aretz 12/11/02)