Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli police

Palestine, August 26 – Three Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian sources say.

 

Nineteen Palestinians were wounded in the confrontation, Palestinian medical sources said.

 

Israeli police said "riot dispersal methods" had been used against some 1,500 Palestinians throwing rocks and petrol bombs during an arrest.

 

They did not confirm the use of live fire or any reported deaths.

 

Palestinian sources named those killed as Rubeen Abed Fares, 30, Yunis Jahjouh, 22, and Jihad Aslan, 20. They said Fares and Aslan were both shot in the chest, and that Aslan had died of brain damage.

 

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the violence erupted after police went to the camp to arrest a "hostile terrorist activist", AFP news agency reported.

 

Source; BBC