Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians late Tuesday (March 19) after they threw explosives towards officers stationed at an entrance to a Jewish shrine near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the military said. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed the deaths.
Palestinians, many of them people without links to armed groups, carried out a wave of attacks in the West Bank in late 2015 and 2016 but the frequency of such incidents has since decreased.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinians seek to establish a state there and in the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014.