Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank - GulfToday

Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank

  • 12 Apr 2023
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Israeli soldiers on patrol opened fire, killing the two Palestinians.

The Israeli military shot and killed two Palestinians in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest incident in a wave of deadly violence gripping the occupied territory.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two men killed in the West Bank village of Deir Al Hatab as Saud Abdullah Saud and Mohammed Abu Dira, without saying their ages.

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The Israeli military said the men shot at an Israeli outpost near the settlement of Elon Moreh, south of the Palestinian city of Nablus. Israeli soldiers on patrol opened fire, killing the two alleged gunmen.

Tuesday's deaths followed a week of unusually heightened violence in Israel and the West Bank, touched off by an Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, the compound home to the Al Aqsa mosque.

Last week, the Israeli military struck sites linked to the Palestinian group Hamas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip after militants in the two territories fired salvos of rockets at Israel. The mosque sits on a contested hilltop revered as the third-holiest site in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism.

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