International Desk: Two Palestinians were killed on Thursday during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

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The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the men killed on Thursday were 27-year-old Naeem Jamal al-Zubaidi and 26-year-old Mohammed Ayman al-Saadi.

The Israeli military said troops came under fire, and shot back, during a Jenin-area raid to arrest suspected militants.

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The bodies of the two men were carried by Palestinian crowds from the Ibn Sina Hospital through the streets of the Jenin refugee camp.

Israel’s military said it had entered Yabad to arrest Abd Al-Ghani Harzallah, who it “suspected of terrorist activity”.

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The army added that it opened fire after “armed suspects fired at the soldiers and explosive devices were hurled in the area”.

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