A Palestinian man was killed Wednesday morning in the West Bank city of Nablus, as Israeli forces continue their hunt for a local Hamas-led cell believed to be planning a suicide bombing in Israel.

Palestinian eyewitnesses identified the man as 35-year-old Adib Salim, and added that he was disabled, unarmed, and not involved in the fighting. Palestinian sources said Salim was, however, a Hamas member and the brother of Jamal Salim, a top Hamas commander killed by the Israel Defense Forces.

Family members told Reuters that Salim had been disabled in a 2001 Israel Air Force strike in Nablus.

Israel Radio quoted military sources as saying Salim was killed during a firefight between soldiers from the Heruv Battalion and three armed militants...

...On Tuesday, IDF Staff Sergeant Ben-Zion Henman, whose unit was participating in the Nablus operation, was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen...

IDF and Border Police forces operating in the refugee camp in Nablus found ammunitions, materials for making explosives and a vest to carry pipe bombs in a local home.

The arms were detonated in a controlled explosion.