(12 Mar 2023)
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Sarra, near Nablus, West Bank - 12 March 2023
1. Men scraping through bloodstained sand on ground
2. Bloodstained sand
3. Exterior of building where Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli security forces
4. Various of Israeli security forces personnel and vehicles
STORYLINE:
Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinian militants Sunday who opened fire on troops in the occupied West Bank, the military said, the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, claimed the men killed as members.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the men were killed by Israeli fire near the city of Nablus and identified them as Jihad Mohammed al-Shami, 24, Uday Othman al-Shami, 22 and Mohammed Raed Dabeek, 18.
The military said it confiscated three M16 rifles from the militants after the shootout and that one gunman turned himself in and was arrested.
The deaths Sunday bring to 80 the number of Palestinians killed since the start of the year, as Israel stepped up arrest raids in the West Bank.
A spasm of Palestinian attacks against Israelis has killed 14 people in 2023.
The current round of violence is one of the worst between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank in years.
It began last spring after a series of Palestinian attacks against Israelis that triggered near-nightly Israeli raids in the West Bank.
AP video shot by Majdi Muhammad
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