About 100 masked gunmen stormed the heavily guarded home of Gaza's former security chief before dawn Wednesday, dragged him out in his pajamas and killed him in the street in a burst of gunfire - a brazen challenge to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas just days before Israel was to hand Gaza to Palestinian rule.

The Popular Resistance Committees, a violent group made up largely of former members of Abbas' Fatah movement, later claimed responsibility. The group said it killed Arafat, a cousin of the late Yasser Arafat, to punish him for alleged corruption after the Palestinian security forces had taken no action against him. "We have implemented God's law," a spokesman, Mohammed Abdel Al, told The Associated Press.
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