West Bank, ALRAY - The Israeli occupation army has shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Local sources reported that Israeli occupation special forces broke into Jaba in southern Jenin early Thursday morning, stopped a Palestinian vehicle and fatally shot all passengers.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the three martyrs as Sufian Fakhoury, 26, Nayef Malaysha, 25, and Ahmed Fashafsha, 22.

The Israeli occupation army also deployed snipers on the roofs of a number of Palestinian homes and buildings in the area and sent additional reinforcements to the village.

The execution-style assassination of the three young men raised the number of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli occupation army and Israeli colonial settlers this year to 77, including 13 children and a woman.