"Israel" Martyrs 2 Palestinians in Nablus
Source: Alalam.ir, 24-06-2008
NABLUS--‘Israeli' occupying army martyred two Palestinians at dawn Tuesday in the West Bank town of Nablus, hospital and security sources said.
The sources said one of the dead Palestinians was a member of Islamic Jihad and that the other was affiliated with the resistance movement Hamas.
Nablus's governor Jamal Muheisen called the ‘Israeli' raid in the city an "unjustified crime" but said he did not believe it would threaten the Gaza truce.
Palestinian forces loyal to the nation's Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas were deployed in Nablus late last year as part of a Western-backed law and order campaign coordinated with ‘Israeli' occupying regime.
But local Palestinian commanders say frequent ‘Israeli' raids into the city have undercut that effort.
The killings could test a truce which took effect last week between the occupying regime and Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip.
A Zionist military spokesman confirmed one death, naming the man as an official of resistance movement Islamic Jihad wanted for carrying out anti-Israeli attacks.
The spokesman said he was killed "in an exchange of fire" with an Israeli unit sent to capture him.
‘Israeli' army surrounded a building where students from Najah University stay and opened fire at the two Palestinians from close range, the sources said.
The two were identified as Iyad Khanfa, 25, a fourth-year student at the university, and Walid Juma'a, 21, from a village near the northern West Bank ciy of Jenin.
The army was apparently seeking Juma'a, who was described as a member of the Islamic Jihad organization.
The sources said the two were dead when they were brought to hospital in Nablus after the army had left the area.
The university suspended classes for the day in mourning for the dead student.
Though the truce applies only to Gaza, attacks on activists in the occupied West Bank could trigger retaliation.
NABLUS--‘Israeli' occupying army martyred two Palestinians at dawn Tuesday in the West Bank town of Nablus, hospital and security sources said.
The sources said one of the dead Palestinians was a member of Islamic Jihad and that the other was affiliated with the resistance movement Hamas.
Nablus's governor Jamal Muheisen called the ‘Israeli' raid in the city an "unjustified crime" but said he did not believe it would threaten the Gaza truce.
Palestinian forces loyal to the nation's Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas were deployed in Nablus late last year as part of a Western-backed law and order campaign coordinated with ‘Israeli' occupying regime.
But local Palestinian commanders say frequent ‘Israeli' raids into the city have undercut that effort.
The killings could test a truce which took effect last week between the occupying regime and Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip.
A Zionist military spokesman confirmed one death, naming the man as an official of resistance movement Islamic Jihad wanted for carrying out anti-Israeli attacks.
The spokesman said he was killed "in an exchange of fire" with an Israeli unit sent to capture him.
‘Israeli' army surrounded a building where students from Najah University stay and opened fire at the two Palestinians from close range, the sources said.
The two were identified as Iyad Khanfa, 25, a fourth-year student at the university, and Walid Juma'a, 21, from a village near the northern West Bank ciy of Jenin.
The army was apparently seeking Juma'a, who was described as a member of the Islamic Jihad organization.
The sources said the two were dead when they were brought to hospital in Nablus after the army had left the area.
The university suspended classes for the day in mourning for the dead student.
Though the truce applies only to Gaza, attacks on activists in the occupied West Bank could trigger retaliation.
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