Two Palestinian men aged 21 and 30 were killed and three others injured by gunfire by Israeli settlers in Aqraba, south of Nablus, in the West Bank: this was announced by the local authorities, quoted by the international media.
The area has been tense in recent days after a 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed in what Tel Aviv called a "terrorist attack": settlers responded with attacks in numerous Palestinian communities, despite appeals from Israeli leaders not to take justice into their own hands . The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that a violent clash occurred between Palestinian and Israeli civilians in Nablus, and that troops intervened to disperse the crowd. The IDF said its initial investigation established that the Palestinians killed were not hit by army fire.