Ammon News - Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians and injured another on Tuesday evening, near the town of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.

"The two martyrs are Saud Abdullah Saud Teeti, and Mohammad Ghazi Mohammad Abu Thira'a," according to a Palestinian Ministry of Health statement.

With the martyrdom of the two young men, the number of Palestinian martyrs, killed by the Israeli occupation forces, since the beginning of this year, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has risen to 98, the ministry said.