A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops today during clashes in the West Bank town of Nablus after the funeral procession of 11 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian medical sources said.
At leasttwo others are reported to have been injured. Earlier two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile Israeli attack helicopters fired missiles at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank towns of Jenin and Tulkarm today, wounding at least 15 people, witnesses said.
Hospital sources in Tulkarm reported four security personnel and 11 civilians wounded in the strike by three assault helicopters on the Palestinian security headquarters in the northern West Bank town.
Witnesses in Jenin said four helicopter gunships launched 11 missiles at the main headquarters of the Palestinian security and police apparatus in the town.
The Israeli army said in a written statement that its air force had attacked two terrorist targets and confirmed they were the Palestinian security headquarters in Tulkarm and Jenin.
The strikes, the second against both Jenin and Tulkarm this week, followed widespread air attacks yesterday against Palestinian security compounds in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel said were in reprisal for a suicide bombing that killed five Israelis in the coastal town of Netanya.
Two more bodies were found in the rubble of a building destroyed by the Israeli warplanes in Nablus yesterday. Another man died overnight of wounds sustained in Israel's first warplane attack since it occupied the Palestinian territories in 1967.
Their deaths bring to 12 the total who died as a result of the air raids on three West Bank targets.
The Palestinian Authority had condemned the Netanya bombing and urged Israel to demonstrate restraint.