Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Tuesday near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
They were living in a nearby Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
The bodies of the two men – identified as Mohammed Abu Dhraa and Soud al-Titi – were taken by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera reported. Israel has been withholding the bodies of Palestinians as a punitive policy for decades.
Al-Titi was a member of the Palestinian Authority security forces, while Abu Dhraa was a former detainee who spent seven years in an Israeli prison.
Israeli forces have killed at least 96 people, including 16 children, since the start of January, at a rate of nearly one murder a day, in what the Palestinian health ministry has described as the deadliest start to a year since 2000.
On Monday, Israeli troops killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
Mohamed Faiz Balhan, 15, was shot dead just after 9 am local time when Israeli forces raided the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp near the city to make arrests.
