Israeli forces killed three Palestinians Tuesday
in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian
health ministry said.
Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa was killed by "Israeli
occupation forces shooting at him near the town of Beit Fajar",
the ministry said late in the afternoon.
Abu Afifa was a resident of the Al-Aroub refugee camp north
of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency
Wafa reported.
The Israeli army said its "observation troops" had
identified "two suspects" close to an Israeli settlement near Beit
Fajar.
"Troops used standard operating procedures, eventually
firing at the suspects when they did not stop fleeing," a statement said.
One suspect was subsequently declared dead, the army said,
adding that the incident was "under investigation".
Separately, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians before
dawn on Tuesday after coming under fire during an arrest raid in the
northern West Bank, Israeli border police and Palestinian health
authorities said.
The border police said officers and undercover police
entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest a suspect "wanted for terrorist
activity."
"After the arrest of the suspect, as the forces left
the house, heavy fire was opened from several directions, and undercover forces operating
at the scene responded with live fire," police said.
They said as police reached their vehicles, another
assailant shot at the forces, "who responded with accurate
fire".
The Palestinian health ministry said two men were killed in
the fighting. Wafa identified them as Abdullah al-Hosari, 22, and Shadi Khaled
Najm, 18.