A senior official working for a United Nations relief agency was shot dead in a refugee
camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, Palestinian hospital officials said.

A Reuters cameraman saw the body of the man, an Irish national, after a gun battle broke
out in the area between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen. Doctors said he worked for
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) in the refugee camp.

The victim was identified as Ian Hook, 50, who headed a U.N. project to rebuild homes in
the battle-scarred camp.

Hook was sitting in his office in a small U.N. compound in the camp - consisting of
several mobile homes - when the fighting erupted, said Sami Mshasha, a U.N. spokesman.

At the time time, Israeli troops had surrounded a nearby hideout of a wanted Islamic Jihad
leader, Abdullah Wahsh, demanding that he surrender.
Palestinian gunmen fired at the troops, and an exchange of fire erupted, Palestinian
witnesses said. Hundreds of Palestinian youngsters threw stones at the soldiers, who
returned fire and called in helicopter gunships, the witnesses said.

"Several bullets hit the trailer and hit him (Hook)," Mshasha said. "We managed to send
an ambulance to transfer him to the hospital, but he was dead when he reached the
hospital."

The Jenin Hospital director, Mohammed Abu Ghali, said the bullets retrieved from the
victim's abdomen were of the kind generally used by Israeli troops.
Haaretz

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