RAMALLAH, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian sources declared that three young men were killed by Israeli forces in West Bank's Ramallah and Nablus Wednesday night and East Jerusalem Thursday dawn.
Local sources said that around dawn call for prayers, Israeli police forces shot down a Palestinian after he allegedly attacked two police officers leaving them moderate wounds. The officers, one male and one female, were rushed to the hospital, but the suspected Palestinian perpetrator was fatally shot on the spot.
On Wednesday night, Israeli authorities notified the Palestinian Authority (PA) liaison office of killing Ashraf Na'alwa in Askar refugee camp near Nablus after a nearly two months' manhunt.
Na'alwa was accused by Israel of carrying out a shooting attack in Barkan industrial settlement, killing two Israelis in the north of the West Bank last October.
Israeli sources declared that a special Israeli force arrested two Palestinians near Ramallah city on Wednesday night, and announced one was killed a few hours after arrest, identified as Saleh Barghouti, 29 years old.
Israeli army said Barghouti was an accomplice in the Ofra settlement shooting last Sunday, which led to injuring seven Israeli settlers.
Palestinian sources and Barghouti's family said the army notified them that Barghouti was shot after he tried to escape from arrest along with another young man accompanying him. The special force reportedly arrested the two young men after stopping their taxi near Ramallah city.
Palestinian sources confirmed that at least 19 Palestinians were arrested over night, as the Israeli forces raided Ramallah city several times during the past two days, storming into commercial shops and confiscating cameras.
The Israeli army said that the military activity in the past two days in Ramallah was part of its search of Palestinians involved in Sunday's shooting near Ofra settlement.
