Israeli troops killed three Palestinians

The Statesman: "Monday November 26, 2007 Mashriq Group of Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Syed Ayaz Badshah Israeli army kills three Palestinians TULKAREM: Israeli troops killed three Palestinians on Sunday, one of them in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and two in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, officials on both sides said. In the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem, Israeli troops shot dead Mohammad Qozah, 25, of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a group loosely linked with president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, medics and Palestinian security sources said. An army spokeswoman said that troops had entered the Tulkarem refugee camp in search of two fighters and shot at the men as they tried to flee. One of the men was killed and the other wounded and evacuated to hospital in Israel, she said. In the Gaza Strip, two fighters -- one from Islamic Jihad and another from the Popular Resistance Committees -- were killed early on Sunday. The army said that an Israeli patrol saw the men approaching the border fence that separates the impoverished territory from Israel and killed the militants in a subsequent exchange of fire. - AFP Head Office Islamabad Office Lahore Office Karachi Office Bilal Town, G T Road Peshawar City P.O. Box 1107 "