Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinians wanted in connection with a deadly attack against Israelis, the Israeli military says. The Palestinian Health Ministry says three people were killed but did not immediately identify them.
It said two of the men, identified as Hassan Katnani, Maed Mitsri, were members of the Hamas militant group. It described the third man killed, Ibrahim Hura, as a senior operative who had assisted the other suspects.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said three people were killed in the fighting but did not immediately identify them. The violence in Nablus comes at a particularly sensitive time in the region, days after a prominent Palestinian prisoner who was staging a lengthy hunger strike over his detention died in Israeli custody. His death set off a volley of rockets from militants in Gaza and airstrikes in the coastal enclave that killed one man.The deadly attack last month on the Israeli car shocked Israelis because in an instant it reduced the Dee family from seven members to four.
Israel has been staging near-nightly arrest raids into West Bank villages, towns and cities for more than a year in an operation prompted by a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis last year. Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. The Palestinians see the attacks as further entrenchment of Israel’s 56-year, open-ended occupation of lands they seek for a future independent state.
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