Resistance Group Raps Israeli Assassination of Three Palestinians in West Bank

Describing the incident as an aggression against all the Palestinian people, the group held the Israeli regime fully responsible for the killing.

It stressed that the blood of its three members would not be in vain, saying, “The (other) members will continue their path, and they will continue to fight the enemy, confront it and respond to its crimes with determination and steadfastness, no matter what the sacrifices may be.”

Israel's occupation forces shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin early on Saturday amid the escalation of Israeli violence in the Palestinian territories.

The deaths of the three, who were reportedly members of the al-Quds Brigades - the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement - came on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

The Palestinian Ma'an news agency said the incident took place at dawn on Saturday when Israeli soldiers opened fire at the trio’s car near the entrance to Arraba town, southwest of Jenin.

Citing eyewitnesses, Ma'an said the Israeli occupation forces prevented the ambulances of the Palestinian Red Crescent from reaching the place and informed them at a later time that they did not intend to hand over the bodies of the martyrs and continue to detain them.

The Israeli soldiers also confiscated the car in which the three Palestinians were traveling.

The news agency said the shooting was carried out by special forces from the Israeli police, the occupying regime’s military and Israel's spy agency the Shin Bet.

The Palestinian resistance movement identified the martyrs as Khalil Tawalbeh, 24 years from Jenin, Saif Abu Libdeh, 25 years from Tulkarm, and Saeb Abahra, 30 years from Jenin.

The fatal shooting in Jenin came hours after Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man in the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).