NABLUS: A Palestinian militant was killed early Sunday by Israeli soldiers who were staging an incursion into the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, a Palestinian security source said.
The victim, Hussamah Saleh, 23, was a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is loosely affiliated to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party.
Three other Palestinians were wounded in the exchange of gunfire with Israeli troops, the security source said.
The Israeli army confirmed the incident.
"Soldiers saw an armed man and opened fire, wounding or killing him," a spokesman informed.
The latest death brings to 5,408 the number of fatalities since the 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, the large majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP count.
