Monitoring Desk
RAMALLAH: Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday that Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Palestinian health ministry Abdulhadi Nazal, 18, and Habib Kamil, 25, were killed by Israeli army in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian health ministry
Meanwhile, the Palestinian health ministry said that Israeli occupation army killed 41-year-old Samir Aouni Harbi Aslan in Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club advocacy group said that 18 people were captured in raids overnight Wednesday-Thursday across the West Bank. An eye witness Azzam Abdel Qader said Aslan was shot on the balcony of his home when his son was being arrested. Aslan shouted at the Israeli soldiers and said to his son ‘Don’t be afraid’,”.
Mourners assembled in Qalandia for the funeral of Aslan, the third person killed in the area during last twenty-four hours. As many as nine people were killed by Israel since the start of the new year.
An increase in bloodshed last year saw 200 Palestinians killed in the West Bank, AFP reported.
