Two Israelis were killed in a Palestinian shooting attack Saturday in the West Bank, the Israeli military said, the latest outburst of violence to rock the region. The military said it was searching for suspects and setting up roadblocks near the town of Hawara, a volatile area in the northern West Bank.
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Since last spring, the West Bank has seen some of the deadliest fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in nearly two decades. The two men, aged 60 and 30, were initially described as having sustained severe wounds but were soon pronounced dead after efforts to save them failed.
A Palestinian terrorist was shot by Israeli troops in the West Bank earlier this week died of his wounds on Saturday, Palestinian official media said.
According to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, Mohammad Abu Asab, 19, was shot in the head on Wednesday during an Israeli army incursion into the Balata refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. It cited medical officials. The Israeli military said in its statement Wednesday that a commando unit raided Balata seeking to destroy an underground weapons factory.
While demolishing the site and its stockpile of improvised explosives, the military said a gunfight broke out in the dense camp's warren of alleys between soldiers and armed Palestinians. Wafa reported that during the fighting, Abu Asab was shot in the head and then taken to the Rafidia hospital in Nablus where he later died from his wounds.
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