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Israelis forces kill two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who carried out deadly bus attack
Heavy equipment clears rubble at the site where Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month, in the West Bank village of Burqin, January 23, 2025

ISRAELI forces have killed two Palestinians who allegedly carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.

Military chiefs said today that the two men barricaded themselves in a structure in the West Bank village of Burqin and exchanged fire with Israeli troops before they were killed overnight. 

They said that Mohammed Nazzal and Katiba al-Shalabi were operatives with the Islamic Jihad militant group.

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