RAMALLAH, May 4: Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinian militants during heavy exchanges of fire on Friday in a village in the north of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said.

The three members of the Islamic Jihad movement were killed in a gun battle in Silat al-Harithiya west of the town of Jenin, the sources said.

An spokesman for Israeli army said: “Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a Border Police force carrying out an arrest raid. The force returned fire and identified hitting three of them.”—AFP