Just another day in the peaceful PA:Unknown assailants opened fire at the office of the minister of Islamic endowments Mahmoud Habbash on Wednesday evening.Habbash is essentially the minister for Islam in the PA.
Witnesses told Ma’an that masked and armed men fired heavily at the minister’s office in al-Jinan neighborhood in el-Bireh minutes after he arrived.
Guards responded by shooting at the assailants, who fled the scene in a private car.
Palestine Today adds that some bullets were shot from a neighboring building through his window, so this was a serious assassination attempt.
Now, who would want the PA's Islamic minister dead? Palestinian Christians - or Islamist extremists?