Israel kills three Palestinians in an operation against the suspects in the deaths of three Israelis in April

The Army assures that two of the victims were the perpetrators of an attack in which a woman and her two daughters died

May 4. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Israeli Army has assured this Thursday that it has killed three Palestinians, including the two accused of killing a woman and her two daughters in an attack carried out in April in the West Bank, as part of an operation launched early in the day in the West Bank town of Nablus.

The Israeli Army has indicated that the operation has been carried out jointly with the Shin Bet, and the Israel Police after “a significant effort at the operational and intelligence level” that would have made it possible to locate the place where they were hiding. the suspects in the attack.

Thus, he has stressed in a series of messages on his account on the social network Twitter that during the raid the two suspects -Hasán Katnani and Maad Masri, presumed members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)- and a man were shot dead. identified as Ibrahim Hura who would have given them shelter.

“Two M16 assault rifles and a Kalashnikov have been found in the apartment of the wanted persons. The security forces will continue to act with determination to put an end to any terrorist threat directed against Israeli civilians or soldiers,” he added.

For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed in a message on its Facebook social network account that the operation has resulted in three “martyrs”. “Two of them have their features totally distorted by the intensity of the shots, which makes it difficult to discern their identities,” he asserted.

The two main suspects killed in the raid were accused of killing Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina in an April 7 attack near the Jordan Valley settlement of Efrat. All three victims had dual British-Israeli nationality.