The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid and demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli soldier. The Palestinian health ministry announced the deaths of “Mohammad Samer Hoshieh, 22, after being shot in the chest, and Fuad Mohammad Abed, 25, after being shot in the abdomen and thigh” during a raid by the Israeli army in Jenin.

Israeli soldiers had entered the village of Kafr Dan, in Jenin, “in order to demolish the residences of the assailants who were involved in the shooting adjacent to the Gilboa crossing, in which Major Bar Falah was killed”, Israel’s military said. Falah was killed in September during clashes at the Gilboa checkpoint between Israel and the occupied West Bank.

After he was killed, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades _ the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s secular Fatah party — claimed responsibility for the Israeli major’s death. A subsequent raid by the Israeli army left a Palestinian teenager, 17-year-old Uday Salah, dead after he was “killed by a bullet to the head”. The Israeli army had said at the time its forces were “mapping out the homes of the terrorists who killed Major Bar Falah and arresting suspects through the West Bank”.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP