![]() ![]() to the sounds of the Israeli army vehicles rumbling through the city. Manal Abu Safiyeh, 57, said she woke up at 7 a.m. ![]() Residents have been caught up in previous fighting. Nablus, the West Bank’s commercial capital and second-largest city, has been the scene of repeated Israeli raids over the past year, but few have been conducted during the day because of the increased risk of friction with local residents. READ MORE: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill Palestinian as violence appears to ebb A couple of hours after the army withdrew, young men collected scores of ejected bullet shell casings from the narrow alleys. In Nablus, Israeli shells ripped through the roof of the gunmen’s safe house in the heart of Nablus’ Old City, leaving nothing but twisted metal, cement blocks and torn mattresses still stained with blood scattered over the rubble. In a separate incident Thursday near the West Bank town of Hawara, a 20-year-old soldier shot and killed 26-year-old Palestinian woman who had stabbed and lightly wounded him. In a statement after the raid, the Hamas militant group said the three men, identified as Hassan Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jabr, were its members and the group claimed responsibility for the April attack. ![]() Leo Dee, the woman’s widower, told The Associated Press he was “comforted” by the news of the militants’ death. The military said the men were behind an attack last month on a car near a Jewish West Bank settlement that killed Lucy Dee, the British-Israeli mother and two of her daughters, Maya and Rina. Troops and the suspects exchanged fire and the three men were killed. In a rare daytime incursion launched as residents were starting their day, the military said forces entered the heart of the flashpoint city of Nablus and raided an apartment where the men were located. NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinian militants wanted in connection with a shooting attack that killed a British-Israeli woman and two of her daughters, the Israeli military said, the latest bloodshed in a relentless wave of violence. ![]()
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