NABLUS, West Bank (AP) Israeli troops today killed three Palestinian militants wanted in connection with a shooting attack that killed a British-Israeli wom
A new raid by the Israeli army this morning in Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank. Three Palestinian Hamas fighters - accused of shooting dead three British-Israelis in April - were shot dead by Israeli forces. The Islamist Hamas movement said in a statement that the three men, Hassan Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jibril, were members of its armed wing. The identity of the victims could not be immediately verified by the Palestinian authorities, "the faces of the two Palestinians killed were completely distorted due to the intensity of the fire"