Three Palestinians were killed Sunday night in the occupied northern West Bank in an Israeli army attack, Palestinian sources said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in a statement identified the three men killed in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus as Muhammad Abu Zaytoun, 32, Fathi Abu Rizk, 30, and Abdullah Abu Hamdan, 24.
Contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency, the Israeli army had no comment.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party, said the three men “were fighters” of the group, according to a statement.
Palestinian territory, the West Bank has been occupied by Israel since 1967. Some three million Palestinians live in the area, as well as some 490,000 Israelis in settlements, which the UN considers illegal under international law.
Since the beginning of the year, at least 153 Palestinians, 20 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian have been killed in violence related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an AFP tally drawn from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.
This count includes, on the Palestinian side, combatants and civilians, and on the Israeli side, civilians and three members of the Arab minority.
Source: TSF
