Ramallah - Ma‘an - Israeli Special Forces broke into a suburb of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning and killed two Palestinian members of the Preventative Security Forces.
Palestinian sources said that the Israeli Special Forces invaded Beituniya, in the southwest of Ramallah, and besieged a building. The residents of the building called the Palestinian security services and when they arrived, the Israeli forces opened fire.
In the ensuing clashes, the Israeli troops killed two members of the Palestinian ‘Preventative Security‘ Forces, Khaldoun Shouman, from Ramallah, and his colleague Muhammad Abu Arab, from Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
Israeli sources confirmed that the Israeli army killed two Palestinians. They added that one Israeli soldier was injured during the clashes. He was transported to Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.
This latest confrontation brings the Palestinian death toll at the hands of the Israeli army to six in the last 24 hours as four Palestinians were killed by the Israeli forces in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Tulkarem on Thursday.
Photo: Palestinian relatives of Mohammed Abu-Arab, 26, a member of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service, weeps during his funeral at the Balata refugee camp, adjacent to the northern West Bank City of Nablus, Friday Feb. 2, 2007. Israeli troops killed two members of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service early Friday near Ramallah (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)