Palestinians say Israel troops kill two in West Bank raids

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian officials said Israeli killed two men, including a customs officer, in separate raids in the West Bank on Wednesday..

The raids were carried out before dawn in the Qalandia refugee camp and the town of Tubas, residents and officials said.

Palestinian sources identified the men killed as Ahmad Nidal Aslan, 19, from Qalandia, and Abdul Nasser Muhannad Sarhan, 23, from Tubas.

In a statement to AFP.

Residents of Qalandia said teenage Aslan was killed when Israeli forces shot him after they entered the town to demolish the home of Mohammad Manasra, who Israel accuses of carrying out a deadly attack on a West Bank settlement in February.

Clashes erupted after the troops blew up the second floor of the building. Six men were wounded, they added.

"At dawn, the occupation soldiers fired two bullets at Ahmad. He was taken to hospital where he died," a resident told AFP, declining to be identified for safety reasons.

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Further north in Tubas, the Palestinian health ministry said Israeli troops shot dead Sarhan and wounded two others.

“The Israeli army raided the town of Tubas at dawn and arrested two young men,” a resident of the town told AFP, also declining to be identified.

“As they were leaving, they fired at Sarhan and another young man.”

The Palestinian customs authority said Sarhan was one of its officers.

The health ministry said the death toll from an Israeli raid on the town of Tulkarem on Tuesday had risen to six after a Palestinian shot by Israeli troops died of his wounds.

Since the war in Gaza erupted with Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel, violence has soared in the occupied territory, with at least 589 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops or settlers, according to the Palestinian authorities.