© Reuters. Relatives of Nader Ryan, a Palestinian, who was killed by Israeli troops during clashes, react during his funeral in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 15, 2022. REUTERS / Raneen Sawafta
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what Israeli border police describe as explosive clashes. out in a raid to arrest suspected gunmen.
During an operation at a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, a gunman opened fire on undercover officers who returned fire, “neutralizing” him, the Israeli border police said.
In a second refugee camp near Jerusalem, border police said forces in an individual arrest encountered hundreds of Palestinians throwing heavy objects from rooftops, endangering troops.
It remains unclear whether Palestinians killed there were involved in the clash.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the dead. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the cases as extrajudicial killings.
“These crimes are tantamount to war crimes and crimes against international law that should be punished by international law,” it said in a statement.
In Gaza, a spokesman for the ruling Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Hazem Qassem, said: “We are witnessing a new uprising, a new era of struggle to end the existence of occupation of this land.”
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem – territories Palestinians wanted to be state – during the 1967 Middle East war. The last round of peace talks collapsed in 2014.
The Palestinian Authority, established under a temporary peace agreement with Israel in the 1990s, exercises limited autonomy in the West Bank, but Israeli forces are dominant in the area, where they usually exercise raids to arrest suspected gunmen.
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