The Israeli citizen was identified as 40-year-old Hussan Fathi Mahajani. His relatives left for Jordan this morning to identify the body. Another Arab resident of the Jerusalem area was also reported killed.
It was also reported that two senior figures of the Palestinian Authority security forces, other PA officials, and a brother of a PA legislature member were also killed.
Mahajani, from the city of Um El-Fahm, near Hadera, was killed in the Hyatt Hotel last night when one or more suicide terrorists blew themselves up. Two other simultaneous and similar attacks occurred in other hotels in the Jordanian capital, with a total of 67 people reported killed.
One of the PA figures killed was Bashir Nafa, head of the PA's Military Intelligence in Judea and Samaria, and an ally of Abu Mazen. He was imprisoned in Israel in the 1980's for his terrorist activities, and was expelled in 1988, together with Jibril Rajoub and others. He returned in 1994 after the Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority, and in 1999, he built up a terrorist militia that initiated violent riots in Ramallah in May 2000 and carried out shooting attacks at IDF soldiers.
Other PA bigwigs killed in Jordan were Abbed Aloun, the Director of the PA's Interior Ministry and a former PA security figure; Jihad Fatuh, a PA economic official stationed in Egypt; and Mussab Ahmed Huma, former Director of the PA's Communications Ministry.
In other Arab-Arab violence, at least 25 people are reported dead in Baghdad after a suicide terrorist detonated himself inside a restaurant. Yesterday, 13 Iraqi policemen and civilians were killed in a car bomb blast in Baghdad.
It was also reported that two senior figures of the Palestinian Authority security forces, other PA officials, and a brother of a PA legislature member were also killed.
Mahajani, from the city of Um El-Fahm, near Hadera, was killed in the Hyatt Hotel last night when one or more suicide terrorists blew themselves up. Two other simultaneous and similar attacks occurred in other hotels in the Jordanian capital, with a total of 67 people reported killed.
One of the PA figures killed was Bashir Nafa, head of the PA's Military Intelligence in Judea and Samaria, and an ally of Abu Mazen. He was imprisoned in Israel in the 1980's for his terrorist activities, and was expelled in 1988, together with Jibril Rajoub and others. He returned in 1994 after the Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority, and in 1999, he built up a terrorist militia that initiated violent riots in Ramallah in May 2000 and carried out shooting attacks at IDF soldiers.
Other PA bigwigs killed in Jordan were Abbed Aloun, the Director of the PA's Interior Ministry and a former PA security figure; Jihad Fatuh, a PA economic official stationed in Egypt; and Mussab Ahmed Huma, former Director of the PA's Communications Ministry.
In other Arab-Arab violence, at least 25 people are reported dead in Baghdad after a suicide terrorist detonated himself inside a restaurant. Yesterday, 13 Iraqi policemen and civilians were killed in a car bomb blast in Baghdad.