HIGHLIGHTS: New Army Chief to Continue Aggression Line of Predecessors||Palestinian Passer-by Killed in A Shootout Between Resistance Man & Occupation Troops in Jerusalem||Islamic Jihad Resistance Leader Killed Near Jenin||More Than 20 Palestinian Resistance Activists Arrested Near Ramallah|| STORY: Israel swore in a new occupation army chief of staff Tuesday to lead the on-going aggression against the People of Palestine. (Read photo caption)

Violence, which has largely subsided in Israel since the army reoccupied West Bank cities hit the walled Old City of Jerusalem when a Palestinian Resistance man opened fire after police guards tried to question him.

A shootout ensued in which a Palestinian passerby was killed and the attacker fled. A suspect was arrested later after a search.

Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon replaced Lieutenant-General Shaul Mofaz as chief of staff of the occupation army at a ceremony in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office.

Analysts said Yaalon, would continue the aggression line taken by his predecessor against the Palestinian intifadha, uprising against Israeli occupation.

JIHAD RESISTANCE LEADER KILLED BY OCCUPATION TROOPS NEAR JENIN

Curfews slapped on seven of the West Bank's eight cities now confine around 700,000 Palestinians to their homes, impairing Palestinian public services and stifling Palestinian commerce.

Palestinian sources said an Islamic Jihad Resistance leader, Mu'annar Qassin Daraghmeh, 22, was killed by Israeli occupation troops after they stopped his car near the West Bank city of Jenin.

The occupation army has meanwhile arrested more than 20 Palestinian activists.

The suspects were arrested near Ramallah.

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New Israeli army chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon (R) and outgoing Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Shaul Mofaz (C) are welcomed by army generals at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on July 9, 2002. Yaalon took over as the 17th Israeli army's Chief of Staff, replacing Mofaz who has overseen Israel's response to a 21-month-old Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (Havakuk Levison/Reuter