Israel kills 3 Palestinians in West Bank — medics

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot and
killed three Palestinians on Thursday during a raid in the West
Bank city of Nablus, medics said.

The Israeli army said soldiers opened fire at three wanted
Palestinians fleeing a building where troops had come to arrest
them, but could not confirm their condition.

Medics said the Israeli army had told Palestinian security
officials that three were killed in the raid.

The Israeli army said its troops arrested 14 suspected
militants in overnight raids in the West Bank, territory Israel
captured in the 1967 Middle East War that Palestinians seek for
a state.

Israel has stepped up its raids of militant hideouts in
Palestinian cities since a December 5 suicide bombing that
killed five people at a shopping mall in central Israel.