Israel kills 4 Palestinian in West Bank
Saturday, 22 March 2014
Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians on Saturday during a raid on a home in the occupied West Bank to capture a wanted Hamas Islamist militant, the Israeli military said. Hamas supporters carried three bodies through the streets of the West Bank city of Jenin, shouting slogans against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, involved in U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel. Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls the Gaza Strip, does not recognize the state of Israel and opposes the negotiations. The Israeli military said its forces raided a home in a refugee camp in Jenin where they shot and killed a Hamas militant, Hamza Abu Alhija, after he opened fire, according to Reuters.