Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, Oct 3 (ABC):Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians during an operation Monday targeting alleged militants near Ramallah, raising the year’s mounting death toll in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have been conducting near daily raids in the Palestinian territory since March, with Palestinian fatalities reaching levels not seen since in years.
The latest deaths were in the central West Bank, at the Jazalone refugee camp near Ramallah, where the army said it was pursuing “an individual suspected of terror activity”. During the operation, Israeli troops killed 19-year-old Basel Basbous and Khaled Anbar, 20, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Raafat Habash, 19, was seriously injured, the ministry said.
