Israeli forces killed three Palestinians including a woman in separate incidents in the West Bank village of Burqin, in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The violence comes days after an Israeli raid on so-called insurgents in the occupied West Bank left five Palestinians dead.
The first of those killed early on Thursday was identified as 22-year-old Alaa Nasser Mohammed Zayyoud from the village of al-Silah al-Harithiya, northwest Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
According to local media reports, Zayyoud was shot overnight in the nearby village of Burqin during an armed confrontation with the Israeli army after it raided the town with dozens of military jeeps and special forces at dawn to carry out arrests.
Witnesses told local media that an Israeli sniper shot him at close range, before “they ran towards him and continued liquidating him from point-blank range”.
“The jeeps and the army then surrounded him. They blocked the ambulance from reaching him […] they allowed the ambulance to come after they made sure he was dead,” the witnesses said.
The second Palestinian killed by Israeli forces on Thursday was identified as 30-year-old Israa Khuzaima, a mother of three, from the village of Qabatiya south of Jenin.
Israeli forces announced they shot dead Khuzaima at Bab al-Silsila, also known as Chain Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, claiming she had tried to stab an officer.
Later on Thursday, a Palestinian man was shot dead near the Gaza-Israeli barrier fence.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Israeli soldiers opened fire on bird hunter Mohammad Abu Ammar, 41, who later died from his injuries.
On Sunday, Israeli forces killed five Palestinians during armed confrontations following overnight military raids in Jenin and Jerusalem.
