Three shot dead in West Bank raids

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian intelligence officer and two other men during separate raids in the West Bank town of Jenin and a nearby village today, Palestinian security officials said.

They said soldiers encircled Palestinian intelligence headquarters in Jenin, gunshots were heard, and the bloodstained body of Ali Jabarin, a former member of the violent Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, was seen lying in the street immediately after the shooting. The officials had no further details of the incident.