A High-Ranking Assassination in Gaza.

The article focuses on the assassination of former Palestinian security chief Moussa Arafat. The Popular Resistance Committees, a Fatah-derived group operating in the central and southern Gaza Strip, was quick to claim responsibility for the assassination. Moussa was a former commander of the Palestinian Military Intelligence, an important member of the Katah revolutionary council. Arafat was buried in Gaza City, rather than in the family plot in Khan Younis, Gaza, where popular chaos was leared. By contrast, the lack of popular participation in Arafat's Gaza City funeral was indicative of the street reaction to his death neither surprise nor protest was apparent.