Thugs from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the terror gang that is the flipside of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah (Arabic for “Conquest”) movement, burst into a hospital in Ramallah today and murdered a Palestinian “collaborator” as he lay in bed: Fatah gunmen execute ‘collaborator’ in Ramallah hospital.

Two weeks ago, masked men from Fatah’s armed wing, Aksa Martyrs Brigades, raided the Tulkarm Hospital and shot dead 27-year-old Fida Tirawi while he was undergoing surgery. Tirawi, who belonged to the same group, was killed as part of a dispute between rival groups affiliated with the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the area.

In the Ramallah incident, eyewitnesses said four men armed with M-16 assault rifles and pistols stormed the local hospital in search of 25-year-old Nasser Kalawleh, a resident of the village of Judaideh in the Jenin district.

Kalawleh was brought to hospital after Fatah gunmen in Jenin tried to kill him on suspicion of collaboration with Israel. He was first taken to a hospital in Jenin, but was transferred to Ramallah for fear that the assailants would catch up with him there.

A doctor in the Ramallah hospital said Kalawleh had been shot in the leg outside his home in Judaideh and was admitted to hospital a few days ago. He said the armed men shot Kalawleh while he was lying in bed. …

The Aksa Martyrs Brigades issued a statement claiming responsibility for the “execution” of Kalawleh in the Ramallah hospital. The group said the man was an Israeli “spy” and therefore deserved to die. Kalawleh is the fourth Palestinian killed by the Fatah group in Ramallah over the past three months.