RAMALLAH: Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinian men during a raid near the town of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
The two men were killed while in a car just outside the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah.
The Palestinian official news agency, Wafa, identified them as 18-year-old Bassel Qassem Basbous and 21-year-old Khaled Fadi Anbar.
A third, Raafat Habash, 19, was also with them in the car and was was wounded in the shooting.
The bodies of the two men were taken by the Israeli army after they were killed, while Habash was arrested.
News of the killings came in at about 7am (04:00 GMT). A witness, who wished to remain anonymous, said the shooting occurred outside his home.
“I heard the sound of gunfire at around 3:30am, I looked out of my window, there was a car, there were guys in it who were shot,” he told Al Jazeera.
“The soldiers pulled them out of the car and put them on the side of the road. They were left to bleed on the ground for around 40 minutes. After that, they took their bodies.” –Agencies
