Israeli special forces kill three Palestinians and arrest another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Faraan: The incident took place in the city’s al-Makhfeya neighborhood on Tuesday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
The agency cited its correspondent as saying that an Israeli special force detachment attacked the neighborhood with an unmarked civilian vehicle bearing a Palestinian number plate. The forces then started firing at another vehicle that was travelling nearby, killing three of its occupants and arresting the fourth.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade identified the victims as the West Bank-based resistance group’s members, naming them as Ibrahim al-Nablusi, Adham Mabrouk, and Muhammed al-Dakhil. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, the occupying regime has accused the targeted Palestinians of “several shooting attacks” over the past weeks.
The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority’s health ministry called the Israeli operation “an assassination.” The PA’s foreign ministry also described it as a “field execution.” Israel’s Minister for Military Affairs, Benny Gantz praised the Israeli military and other participating organizations over the criminal operation, which he described as “preventive” and “proactive.”
The Israeli regime occupied the West Bank in a heavily-Western-backed war in 1967. Ever since, it has been dotting the territory with hundreds of illegal settlements, besides imposing the strictest of restrictions on the Palestinians’ freedom there.
