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official Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli troops had
cordoned off a house where the two had holed up and that they
had been "executed".
The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, a major faction in the Palestine Liberation
Organization, claimed the two men as members and said they had
carried out the attack on Israeli police.
The Nablus raid followed a two-day Israeli operation earlier
this week in the densely populated Jenin refugee camp in the
West Bank, which has been a flashpoint in a wave of
Israeli-Palestinian violence that has convulsed the West Bank
for more than a year.
The Israeli military said it had targeted infrastructure and
weapons depots of Palestinian militant factions in Jenin in the
operation.
Twelve Palestinians, most confirmed as militant fighters, were
killed and around 100 wounded in the incursion that began with
late-night drone strikes, followed by a sweep involving more
than 1,000 troops.
The raid damaged homes, left a trail of wrecked streets and
burned-out cars and prompted the evacuation of thousands of
people from the refugee camp. Israel says all the Palestinians
killed were combatants. One Israeli soldier was killed.
The Jenin operation was the most intense in two decades, said
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that provides
public services in Gaza and the West Bank.
UNRWA said it had set up a temporary healthcare facility because
a part its health centre was destroyed, and appealed for foreign
aid to help rebuild damaged buildings.
The Israeli army during its operation had said it struck a
militant command center in Jenin that was situated next to an
UNRWA school and medical centre.
(Reporting by Raneen Sawafta, Ali Sawafta, Nidal al-Mughrabi,
Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Toby Chopra and Ros Russell)
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