IDF arrested a leader of Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade Khaled Shawish, organizer of the assassination of Rabbi Binyamin Kahane in 2002. The IDF suddenly managed to arrest Shawish after many Israeli commentators connected Israeli security service Shin-Bet with murder of Kahane, a popular right-wing leader.
PLO-Fatah had recently killed another leader of Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. IDF and Fatah took on Al Aqsa Martyrs as a politically correct alternative of killing out the Hamas leadership.


