Israeli forces shot and killed, at dawn Thursday, two Palestinian young men in Shoufa village, southeast of Tulkarem in the northwestern occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that the occupation forces opened fire with live ammunition at two young men while they were in their vehicle on the main street of Shoufa village.
The General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Ministry of Health that Abdul-Rahman Fares Muhammad Atta, 23, and Hotheifa Adnan Muhammad Fares, 27, succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted on them by the occupation forces.
Sources added that soldiers dragged the injured young men out of the vehicle and denied them medical intervention by preventing ambulance crews from approaching them, which resulted in excessive blood loss.
[Video from Palestine TV]
The Israeli army claimed that the two Palestinians were behind a shooting targeting a car driven by a paramilitary colonizer near the Avnei Hefetz illegal colony before fleeing the scene and opening fire at Israeli soldiers at a military roadblock they installed after the shooting.
The army later transported the two injured young men in a military ambulance to an undisclosed location.
Meanwhile, the soldiers blocked local journalists from accessing the scene to provide media coverage, firing concussion grenades and tear gas canisters at them, damaging the windshield of a Palestine TV vehicle.
The entrances of the village were closed, blocking citizens’ movements into the village, and impeding traffic at the permanent military roadblock at the western entrance to the village.
