Israeli forces kill two Palestinians
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The bloodshed raised the number of Palestinians killed by the Israelis to 11 this year.
RAMALLAH (Web Desk) - Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian men during a military raid in the occupied West Bank early Saturday, while a third Palestinian died of wounds sustained in a separate Israeli raid nearly two weeks earlier, according to Palestinian medical officials.
The bloodshed raised the number of Palestinians killed by the Israelis to 11 this year, as deadly raids in the area from 2022 shows no signs of slowing in the new year.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the men as Ezzeddin Hamamrah, 24, and Amjad Khleleyah, 23. Jaba is south of Jenin, a town in the northern West Bank that has seen some of the heaviest raids in nearly a year of violence.
The Health Ministry also said Samer al-Jaabari, 19, died from wounds he sustained on Jan. 2 west of Jenin.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories the Palestinians want for their future independent state. Israel has since settled 500,000 people in about 130 settlements across the West Bank, which the Palestinians and much of the international community view as an obstacle to peace.
