Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinian gunmen in WBank

Nablus, West Bank, Mar 27: Israeli forces killed two Palestinian gunmen today during a raid in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian militant group said.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, announced the deaths over loudspeakers in the city of Nablus, a militant stronghold in which Israeli security forces often mount operations to detain wanted men.

An Israeli army spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said an Israeli force carrying out what she described as routine activity in Nablus fired at a group of armed men, hitting some of them.

A local hospital said it received the bodies of two Palestinians killed in the incident.

Reuters