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Israeli Troops Shoot Dead 2 Gunmen in West Bank. PHOTO/Reuters
JERUSALEM – The team Israel killed two gunmen Palestine in a clash on West Bank which was occupied on Monday (3/4/2023). Militant factions and medics say Israel also shot down a drone in the Gaza Strip.
The latest shooting occurred during a raid by the Israeli military on the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Lion’s Den, a coalition of Palestinian gunmen in Nablus, said one of its members was killed resisting the attack. A second gunman who was killed was claimed by a Fatah faction.
The military said its soldiers shot several gunmen after being attacked in Nablus. There were no Israeli casualties.
During the raid, the Israeli military detained two people suspected of assisting a Palestinian who carried out the shooting on March 25 that injured two soldiers, the military said. The car used was also confiscated, he said.
In Ramallah, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, accused Israel of trying to “drag the region into a cycle of violence and instability.”
“Over Gaza, the southern coastal enclave, an Israeli warplane shot down an unidentified flying object,” the Israeli military said. “The object does not cross or threaten Israel,” he added.
Hamas said one of the “Shehab” drones, while on a training flight, had been shot down by the Israeli air force. Hamas said it responded by firing anti-aircraft missiles at the Israeli plane.
In a 2021 statement, Hamas described the Shehab, which is about the size of a model airplane, as a suicide drone carrying explosives.
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