Two Palestinian women died Thursday after an Israeli helicopter attack on Beit Sahour town in the West Bank Thursday that also killed a military leader of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fateh faction, hospital officials said.
The two women were identified as Aziza Danun Jubran, 52, and Rahma Rashid Shahim, 50, who were passing by when Israeli helicopter gunships fired rockets on a vehicle containing several Fateh officials.
Hussein Suyef Abeyad, 37, the leader of Fateh’s military wing in the southern West Bank, was killed in the air strike that the Israeli army said was deliberately aimed at Fateh officials suspected of involvement in anti-Israeli attacks.
Earlier in the day, two Palestinians were killed during confrontation with Israeli troops.
Mohammed Kamel Sharab, 14, was killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in clashes near the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
The second Palestinian was killed when his vehicle was destroyed by an Israeli strike on the West Bank village of Beit Sahur that also left some 15 people injured.
The identity of the dead man was not immediately available.
He was killed when his vehicle came under Israeli fire, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
Two others in the vehicle were wounded and taken to hospital by Palestinian ambulances, the correspondent said – (AFP)
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