Palestinians attended funerals on Sunday of two Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces, including a fighter of The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces raided the Nur Shams camp near the city of Tulkarm in the early hours of Sunday morning, setting off an hours-long gun battle with Palestinian fighters, witnesses said.
the Israeli forces besieged the camp from all directions and fired live ammunition, stun grenades, and toxic gas.
Hamas, said one of the men, 21-year-old Osaid Abu Ali, was a member of its armed wing.
Health officials said 21-year-old Usaid Farhan Abu Ali Jabaawi and Abdulrahman Suleiman Abu Daghash, 32, were rushed to Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Government Hospital in Tulkarm with bullets in their heads.
They were pronounced dead shortly after arrival at the medical center, they said.
Violence in the West Bank has raged for more than a year, with stepped-up Israeli military raids, increased settler assaults on Palestinian villages.
(Source: Reuters)
