Two Palestinians died in Nablus as a result of Israeli shelling, and this year there are already 98.

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in a village near Nablus, north of West Bank occupied when they attempted to attack an Israeli military post, according to the Army Israel.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has identified the dead as Abdullah Saud and Mohamed Abu Dir, and with them are now 98 Palestinians who died this year in violent incidents with Israel, most of them in the occupied West Bank, which is experiencing the beginning of its most brutal year yet. since the Second Intifada.

According to the army, troops stationed on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Deir el-Khatab identified a group of Palestinian militants who opened fire from a vehicle at a military post adjacent to the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh.

The troops ambushed and opened fire on the militants, killing two and wounding a third, who fled towards Nablus.

The army said three M16 assault rifles and two handguns were found after a search of the scene, and said no soldiers were injured in the attempted attack.

Israeli media reported that the Palestinians were members of the Balata Brigade, an armed group that brings together young people of all stripes in the Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus.

“In the course of their successful operation, the soldiers prevented an attack on Israeli civilians,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised.

violent clashes

In another incident on Tuesday, an unarmed Palestinian was detained after an attack on border police officers in the southern city of Hebron. West Bank.

A 23-year-old Hebron resident attacked officers near the city’s tomb of the patriarchs, known to Muslims as the Ibrahim Mosque, and one of the officers fired into the air and another knocked the man to the ground, a police spokesman said. who was slightly wounded.

Earlier this morning, the Israeli army said it had captured a suspected “Palestinian terrorist cell” planning an “imminent attack” in a raid on the northern city of Jenin. West Bank.

Today’s incidents took place in the midst of Israeli-Palestinian violence exacerbated by police allegations against worshipers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which later led to rocket fire from Palestinian militias from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, to which Israel responded with bombings. .

So far this year, 98 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, most of them fighters in violent clashes with Israeli forces, as well as civilians, including 18 minors, while 19 civilians have died on the Israeli side, most of whom were settlers, including three minors.

(EFE)