The Israeli military killed two Palestinians, including a man identified as a member of one of the armed groups, during a confrontation that erupted early Monday morning as the military entered a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, AP NEWS reported..

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Two men were killed in the village of Kafr Dan near the northern city of Jenin.. The Israeli military said it entered Kafr Dan late Sunday to demolish the homes of two Palestinian militants who killed an Israeli soldier during a shootout in September.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the dead as Samer Houshia, 21, and Fuad Abed, 25.. According to Samer Attieh, director of the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, Houshia was shot several times in the chest.. Attieh first said that Abed was 17 years old, but later the ministry gave his age as 25 years old..

The armed group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades later claimed that Houshieh was a member.. The group, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, posted an old photograph of Houshie posing with a rifle.. Video on social media shows his body wrapped in the flag of an armed group as his mother and other mourners bid farewell to him..

2022 was the deadliest year in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 2006. In the past year, the Israeli military raided Palestinian cities and towns almost daily, killing more than 150 Palestinians.. Israeli army claims most Palestinians killed were militants. But young people who threw stones at anti-invasion protesters and others who were not involved in the clashes were also killed..

Israel captured the West Bank, as well as East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, during the 1967 Middle East War, and the Palestinians seek to acquire these territories and create their own state on them.