nablus: Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants on Friday, Palestinian sources said, in what the Israeli military said in response to a shooting of soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military said its troops fired on “two suspicious vehicles” after a passing car fired at one of its posts near the city of Nablus, which has been at the heart of a wave of violence in the West Bank in recent months.
No soldiers were injured and troops were looking for additional suspects, it said.
A boy cries as mourners cast their last look at the body of Ramzi Zabarah, 35, at the family home, during his funeral in the West Bank near Nablus.Credit:AP
The Palestinian health ministry identified the dead men as Emad Abu Rasheed, 47, and Ramzi Zabarah, 35, both from the Askar refugee camp near Nablus. It said a third man had been injured.
The militant al-Aqsa brigades, a split from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, claimed the two murdered men as members.
According to Facebook posts from the Palestinian Civil Guard, the Palestinian Authority’s emergency and rescue service, the two men were also among its ranks.
The Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-government in the West Bank, coordinates security with Israel. The Israeli military did not respond to a question about the men’s ties to the Palestinian vigilante.
A boy cries as mourners take their last look at the body of Ramzi Zabarah, 35, at the family home, during his funeral.Credit:AP
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the killing and said Israel was fully responsible.