WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Two Zionists have been shot dead south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank by a Palestinian fighter in a retaliation attack.
The occupying regime’s ambulance service said two men – ages 60 and 29 – were shot near the Palestinian village of Huwara. Paramedics said the two people were targeted inside a carwash.
“Both were unconscious and had sustained gunshot wounds to their bodies,” a spokesperson for the ambulance service said.
The occupying regime’s army spokesperson for Arabic media, Avichay Adraee, confirmed the two had been killed.
The situation in the West Bank has been particularly volatile over the past 15 months with stepped up deadly Zionist raids and rampages by settlers on Palestinian villages.
Earlier on Saturday, a Palestinian man shot by Zionist troops during a raid this week in the occupied West Bank died, the official Palestinian news agency and a health worker said.
Mohammed Abu Asaab was “seriously injured in the head” on Wednesday in Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and on Saturday succumbed to his wounds, news agency Wafa reported.
It said Abu Asaab was hit during clashes that erupted when Israeli “undercover forces” surrounded a house in the camp.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment from AFP.
An official at Al Najah hospital in Nablus, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media, told AFP that Abu Asaab, a resident of Balata, had died “as a result of wounds sustained at dawn last Wednesday during the occupation (Zionist) forces’ storming of the camp”.
An AFP correspondent in Nablus said Abu Asaab’s death was also announced over mosque loudspeakers throughout the city.
His death brought to 218 the number of Palestinians martyred in violence this year linked to the Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian Branded With ‘Star of David’

A Palestinian man who was detained by Zionist troops in occupied East Al-Quds said he has been physically abused after officers brutally beat him and branded the Star of David on his cheek, according to Israeli media reports.
The man’s lawyer presented the charges to an Al-Quds district court on Thursday, a day after he was taken from his residence in the Shuafat refugee camp.
At least 16 officers were involved in the arrest of the Palestinian man, however, none had their body cameras on, according to the Ynet news website.
The officers blindfolded the man and proceeded to beat him with their fists “in all parts of his body”, Ynet reported. The man’s cheek was then branded with the Star of David symbol, it added.
Wadim Shub, the Palestinian man’s lawyer, was quoted as saying in a statement that the incident was “a grave case of intentional violence and humiliation of a detainee by police” and demanded an immediate police investigation.