A Palestinian journalist also working for the office of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has been shot dead in Gaza City by masked gunmen.
Palestinian medical sources and the journalists' union told reporters Khalil al-Zabin, 59, was ambushed early on Tuesday by several masked men after leaving his office in central Gaza and shot several times.
Al-Zabin ran a bi-monthly human rights magazine and also acted as an adviser to the veteran Palestinian leader.
Arafat's Fatah movement, the main grouping in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, as well as human rights organisations and the Palestinian Journalists Union all condemned the assassination.
The attack was the latest in a growing number of incidents targeting journalists in the Palestinian territories in what press activists say is an attempt to intimidate the local media.
Three weeks ago, an executive with a newspaper linked to the Palestinian Authority had his car torched in Gaza City, the victim told news agency AFP.
Munir Abu Razaq, a journalist and managing editor of the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida daily, said his car was set ablaze parked in front of his house in the southern Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.
In early February, the offices of the Palestinian weekly Al-Dar were vandalised during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
And on 8 January, a Gaza correspondent for the Arab television station al-Arabiya was beaten by masked men and hospitalised.
The station's offices in the West Bank town of Ram Allah were attacked last September by masked men claiming to belong to al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an offshoot of Fatah.
Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip staged a one-day strike on 9 February to protest against the attacks on them.
Also early on Tuesday, Israeli forces killed an unarmed Palestinian during a West Bank swoop, witnesses and military sources said.
They said the 27-year-old man was shot dead by troops who rolled into Yatta village outside the Palestinian-ruled city of Hebron before dawn, on a search for resistance fighters.
Israeli military sources said the man was killed after he tried to flee and ignored orders to stop, adding no weapons were found on him.
Palestinian locals said he had no known links to armed fighters waging an uprising that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in September 2000.
There was no immediate word of arrests in Yatta during the operation, which continued into Tuesday morning.
Much of Gaza still lays in ruins as more than 9,000 completely destroyed Palestinian refugee homes need reconstruction.
More than 13,000 Palestinian refugee families still cannot return to their destroyed or damaged homes in the Gaza Strip [Reuters]
Gaza City - The first of more than 9,000 "completely destroyed" Palestinian refugee homes during Israel's 51-day war in the besieged Gaza Strip has been rebuilt, according to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
"I held the new keys in my hand; at that moment, I felt relieved and happy, and I wanted to give the keys to my wife and show her the house and everything in it," Atef al-Zaza, father of 12 from al-Shaaf neighbourhood in Gaza City, said in the press release.
Starting in July 2014 and spanning seven weeks, Israeli forces attacked Gaza from land, air and sea. Palestinian armed factions fired rockets into southern Israel and carried out cross-border raids.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) verified the deaths of 2,131 Palestinians - among them 1,473 civilians, 501 of whom were children.
Already blockaded by Israel since Hamas took control of the strip in 2007, Gaza has been hit by three major Israeli attacks since 2008.
Many homes destroyed during the first war - Operation Cast Lead - have yet to be rebuilt due to Israel's strict regulations.
Reconstruction, however, moved at a snail's pace, leaving tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced.
It was not until nearly a year after the ceasefire, in June 2015, that an agreement was reached between Israel and Palestinian leaders streamline the reconstruction of residential structures that were entirely flattened.
Known as the Residential Stream of the Gaza Reconstruction Movement, the agreement allows for an increase in the amount of materials into Gaza for totally demolished homes.
"Now there are many houses under construction, everywhere you go," Ahmed Yousef, the head of Gaza-based think-tank House of Wisdom and former senior adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, told Al Jazeera.
According to Yousef, an agreement between Israel, Qatar and the international community are the driving forces behind rebuilding.
"It has nothing to do with their goodwill. There is a world pressure on the Israelis to allow reconstruction materials through," Yousef said.
Adar Horn, the spokesperson for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, told Al Jazeera that Israel is "increasing" the number of truckloads of reconstruction supplies.
"The average is about 800 trucks a day, last October, it was around 250 trucks each day," she continued. "More than 2,200 million tonnes of reconstruction materials have been allowed to enter Gaza."
"Delighted as we are for the Zaza family, the fact that just one totally destroyed house has been rebuilt in the 13 months since the Gaza conflict ended is a sad commentary in and of itself," UNRWA spokesperson Christopher Gunness told Al Jazeera.
Gunness stressed that 13,166 refugee families - whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged - remain displaced.
"We are being hampered in our mission to restore dignity to the people of Gaza by the lack of funds as well as the physical restrictions. We need money, but we also need complete freedom of access and we need it immediately."
Fifteen people, some of them Israelis, were killed in the bombing of Paradise Hotel in 2002 [GALLO/GETTY]
An American official told the broadcaster ABC that a US navy ship had been in the area to monitor the situation and to provide assistance.
The US says the al-Shabab group, which is fighting against the Somali government, has links to al-Qaeda.
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, had said earlier on Monday that he would not comment on the operation or on any potential US involvement.
But Al Jazeera's senior Africa correspondent Andrew Simmons, reporting from the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, said US sources say they are confident they have their target.
"[If confirmed] it will certainly be a major tactical victory on the part of the US special forces," Simmons said on Tuesday.
Nabhan is believed to have owned the lorry used for the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel on Kenya's coast that killed 15 people. He was also wanted over a failed attack on an Israeli airplane leaving Mombasa airport the same year.
Several residents in Barawe said Nabhan had been killed in the Barawe attack, along with at least one other person.
Abdi Ahmed, a resident, said six helicopters flew over the village before two of them opened fire. "White" foreign soldiers in military uniforms then got out and left with two wounded men, he said.
Al-Shabab confirmed to Al Jazeera that the attack had taken place, but refused to give more details.
Earlier reports suggested that the helicopters were French, but the French military denied its troops had been involved.
Commenting on the Somalian conflict, Ernst Jan Hogendoorn, Horn of Africa project director at the International Crisis Group, said that the solution to Somalia's problems will have to be a political one.
"We feel … that there are many moderate elements in al-Shabab that could be brought into the government, he told Al Jazeera from Nairobi.
"It is unclear how deep the connections between al-Qaeda and al-Shabab are. Although this may be an important strike against a particular individual, in the long run this is not the way the war on terror is going to be won in Somalia."
Noting that the US had been looking for Nabhan for some time, Abdi Ismail Samatar, a professor at the University of Minnesota, said: "Obama's policy in Somalia has been more aggressive despite the fact that the president, in his address to the Muslim world in Cairo, said that the US does not intend to intervene in the local political affairs of other countries.
"[It] has been deeply involved in Somalia and has been in fact more aggressive than the Bush administration to the point where they sent two arms shipments to the Transitional Federal Government, which the Bush administration never did."
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