Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israel’s domestic security service said.
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The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the killing as a “field execution.”
The armed wing of the Palestinian Fatah group claimed the three men as members. A Palestinian source had earlier said the men belonged to the Islamic Jihad group, but a source in the group later denied that.
The Shin Bet security service described the men as a “terrorist squad” that had carried out shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians in the area over the past few weeks. There were no casualties reported in those attacks.
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