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Israeli troops kill three Palestinian Hamas gunmen in West Bank clash

  • General view of the car in which three Palestinians were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
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    Israeli troops kill three Palestinian Hamas gunmen in West Bank clash

    General view of the car in which three Palestinians were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
  • Israeli troops stand guard at the scene where three Palestinians who fired at Israeli forces were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
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    Israeli troops kill three Palestinian Hamas gunmen in West Bank clash

    Israeli troops stand guard at the scene where three Palestinians who fired at Israeli forces were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
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    Israeli troops kill three Palestinian Hamas gunmen in West Bank clash

    Israeli troops stand guard at the scene where three Palestinians who fired at Israeli forces were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
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    Israeli troops kill three Palestinian Hamas gunmen in West Bank clash

    General view of the car in which three Palestinians were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
General view of the car in which three Palestinians were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
Israeli troops stand guard at the scene where three Palestinians who fired at Israeli forces were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
Israeli troops stand guard at the scene where three Palestinians who fired at Israeli forces were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
Israeli troops inspect the scene where three Palestinians who fired at Israeli forces were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
General view of the car in which three Palestinians were allegedly killed by Israeli troops, in Nablus
Reuters
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants who opened fire on them from a car near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israel's defence minister and army said.

The Islamist militant group Hamas claimed the three as its members and said in a statement they had died in a clash.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Twitter the incident took place at Mount Gerizim, a Samaritan community overlooking Nablus.

Violence in the West Bank has surged for over a year, with increased Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and settler rampages in Palestinian villages. Nablus and the nearby northern West Bank city of Jenin have seen especially intense clashes.

(Reporting by Henriette Chacar and Ali Sawafta; Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Kim Coghill, Stephen Coates and Andrew Heavens)