In recent days, the Israeli army has killed Abdullah Kawasame, a high-ranking member of Hamas in Hebron, and Mohammed Sidr, the Islamic Jihad commander in the city. Mesk was a close friend of Kawasame and felt his death particularly painfully. But it was the killing of Sidr that generated the most controversial.
Although Israel is not a formal party to the ceasefire declared in late June, it had agreed to stop the raids on Palestinian cities to assassinate Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah activists it accused of terrorism.
But Israel said it reserved the right to stop imminent attacks on its citizens.
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