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Israeli gunfire wounds 3 Palestinians in West Bank

Xinhua, October 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli soldiers on Friday fired and wounded three Palestinians, including a photojournalist, during an anti-settlement protest in northern the West Bank, according to a Palestinian official.

Murad Ishtaiwi, a coordinator for the popular resistance in the village of Kofor Qadoom near the town of Qalqilia, said that the protesters were calling for opening a main road in the village.

Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at the protesters and wounded three people, including a photographer who works for an Italian news agency, he added.

Conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is expected to flare following Thursday night's shooting attack which killed two Israelis -- a husband and his wife -- from the settlement of Itamar near the West Bank city of Nablus.

Following the attack, a group calling itself the Brigades of Abdul Qader al-Husseini - the Forces of the Storm, an armed wing of Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack in a leaflet published on the group's website.

However, a senior official in President Abbas' Fatah movement, who spoke on condition of anonymity, denied any relation between the group which carried out the attack and Fatah movement. Endit