WEST BANK: Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinian militants during a raid in Nablus

Record ID: 565131

  • Title: WEST BANK: Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinian militants during a raid in Nablus
  • Date: 17th May 2006
  • Summary: PHOTOGRAPHERS SCUFFLING WITH TROOPS ON SITE MORE OF TROOPS IN STREETS (2 SHOTS) VEHICLES LEAVING AREA
  • Embargoed: 1st June 2006 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations,Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVA48B6HVS4D45KAINI6SXVE7PKW
  • Story Text: Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian militants during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday (May 17), Palestinian security sources and medics said.
    They said the two gunmen were killed during an exchange of gunfire with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus.
    A third gunmen was injured in the clash and was arrested by Israeli forces, the sources said.
    An Israeli military source said soldiers had identified hitting three gunmen inside a building in the city which a force had encircled trying to arrest a wanted militant inside.
    Medics at the hospital said they had found a wristband written in Arabic on each of the two men which said they were with militant group Islamic Jihad. Confirmation from the group was not immediately available.
    The Israeli source declined to comment on the identity of the men.
    Palestinian sources said the gunmen were from outside Nablus and had come to use the city as a hideout.
    On Sunday Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians including a leading Islamic Jihad militant in the bloodiest fighting in weeks in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli military official and Palestinian sources said.
    Israel mounts frequent military raids in the West Bank against suspected militants.
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