Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces on Thursday south of Tulkarm city in the West Bank.
Wafa News Agency reported that the occupation forces stormed the village of Shufa south of Tulkarm in large numbers and deployed their snipers between the alleys and fired bullets and poison gas bombs on the Palestinians, claiming the lives of two young men.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the two martyrs are Abdel Rahman Atta, 23, and Hadifa Fares, 27.
The number of Palestinian martyrs from the attacks of the occupation forces and its settlers in the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year rises to 243 martyrs.