Three Palestinians killed by Israel troops: Palestinian ministry

Nablus: Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday Palestinian Ministry of Health He said, the latest deaths in the escalation of violence in the province since early last year.

“Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli bullets in Nablus,” the ministry said, adding that the identities of those killed in the city in the northern West Bank are still unknown.
The Israeli army said that three “armed terrorists” opened fire on its soldiers from a car in the Nablus neighborhood, and the soldiers returned fire to “neutralize” them.

The military said in a statement that the soldiers found three M-16 rifles, a handgun, cartridges and other military equipment.
spokesman for the Palestinian president, Nabil Abu Rudeinehthat the killing of the three Palestinians on Tuesday amounted to a “war crime”.
“The Israeli crimes will not bring us to our knees and will not bring security and stability to anyone,” he said in a statement.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six Day War in 1967.
Since early last year, the area has witnessed a series of attacks by Palestinians on Israeli targets, as well as violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian communities.
Violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this year has killed at least 201 Palestinians and 27 Israelis, Ukrainians and Italians, according to an AFP tally from official sources on both sides.
Among them, on the Palestinian side, are fighters and civilians, and on the Israeli side, three members of the Arab minority.
Excluding Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, the West Bank is home to nearly three million Palestinians, as well as some 490,000 Israelis who live in settlements considered illegal under international law.