NABLUS, West Bank - Israeli troops shot and killed five Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday, including two militants and a 16-year-old boy who had been throwing stones at an army jeep, Palestinians said.
In one of the shootings, a militant from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, linked to the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and his cousin were killed by Israeli undercover soldiers, Palestinian doctors and security officials said. The military had no immediate comment.
In another gunbattle, a member of the Islamic Jihad group, Mohammed Zakarneh, 18, was killed in the town of Qabatiyeh in the northern West Bank, Palestinians said.
The army said one of its patrols was on an arrest raid when it was fired upon by two militants. Troops returned fire and hit one of the men, the army said.
Later Tuesday, two more Palestinians were killed by army gunfire in Qabatiyeh after throwing stones at an army jeep, Palestinian security officials said. The dead were identified as Mohammed Kmeil, 16, who was shot in the neck, and Hani Khalil Kmeil, 20, who was shot in the chest.
The military said it fired at the rock-throwers, killing one of them.
Also Tuesday, the Israeli military said its forces had discovered a tunnel under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt near the Israeli border. The military said it was used to smuggle weapons into Gaza.
The military said two other tunnel shafts were discovered, and soldiers planned to blow them up later in the day.
The Israelis said they have discovered 13 such tunnels in the past three months. Israel has maintained that since it withdrew from Gaza a year ago, turning control of the border over to Egypt and the Palestinians, arms smuggling into Gaza has greatly increased.
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