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Two Palestinians were killed this morning by the Israeli occupation forces during an assault on Tulkarm refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, according to medical sources.

The Ministry of Health said the two were brought dead to a hospital in Tulkarm and a third was brought with injuries in the limbs and is in stable condition.

The two were identified as Samer Salah Shafiee, 22, who was shot in the neck, chest, and belly, and Hamza Jamil Kharyoush, 22, shot in the chest, belly, and left leg.

Reports from Tulkarm said a large army force raided the refugee camp and in the process shot and killed the two youths and injured the third before leaving the area.

Prime Minister says Israel’s sense of impunity encourages it to commit crimes against the Palestinians

Reacting to Israel’s killing this morning of two young Palestinian men in Tulkarm, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Israel’s sense of impunity encourages it to commit crimes against the Palestinians.

The Prime Minister offered his condolences to the families of Samer Shafiee and Hamza Kharyoush, both 22 years of age, who were killed by the occupation forces during an assault on the northern West Bank city.

“The martyrs Shafiee and Kharyoush are two new victims of organized terrorism practiced by the occupation soldiers against our people, as they carry out their portable crimes with extra-judicial executions, without the slightest care for international laws and humanitarian laws. They are tyrannized by the lust for murder that feeds on the doctrine of burning, erasure, and genocide,” he said in a statement.

Shtayyeh held the occupation authorities fully responsible for what he described as “the horrific crimes,” considering “the occupation's continuation in committing its crimes is a result of the absence of unified international standards, and the perpetrators' sense of impunity.”

Shafiee and Kharyoush's funeral was held today in Tulkarm attended by hundreds of people as the city observed a general strike.

With the latest killings, the Israeli army shot and killed 108 Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, inside Israel, and in the Gaza Strip since the start of the year, including 20 minors and two women. Two others have died in prison, including Khader Adnan who died after going on hunger strike for 86 days.

After holding their bodies for 55 days, Palestinians finally lay to rest three young men killed by Israeli soldiers

In Nablus city Jihad Mohammad Shami, 24, Udai Othman Shami, 22, and Mohammad Raed Dabbeek, 18, were laid to rest in their hometown today in a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners, 55 days after they were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces.

Israeli soldiers shot dead the three young men on March 12 in an ambush when they were in a car near a military checkpoint southwest of northern West Bank city and have been holding their bodies since then.

While more than 130 other bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers remain in Israeli custody, some for years, waiting to be buried by their families, the army last night, in a step that has rarely been done, released the bodies of the three young men and handed them over to the Palestinians.

The bodies were taken to a hospital in Nablus where they were kept in the morgue before they were given proper funeral and buried today by their families, friends, and hundreds of Nablus residents.