Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank clash

Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, in which five soldiers were also wounded.
The military said, the two Palestinians were in a car from which shots were fired at an Israeli vehicle near the town of Tulkarm. It said, following a pursuit, soldiers shot both of the Palestinians in a gunfight and recovered an assault rifle from their car.
The Hamas Islamist militant group claimed the slain Palestinians, aged 23 and 27, as its members.
Hamas and another armed faction, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said they had inflicted Israeli casualties in gun and bomb ambushes in a separate clash within Tulkarm.
The army said five Israeli soldiers were wounded in that incident, as they detained a Palestinian militant. Islamic Jihad said one of its members was in Israeli custody.