3 Palestinian gunmen shot, killed after opening fire on IDF in West Bank, Israeli military says

Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinian militants Sunday who opened fire on troops in the occupied West Bank, the military said, the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.

The Times of Israel reported that Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that the shots had been fired toward a military post near Jit, west of Nablus, where troops of the Golani Brigade's Reconnaissance Battalion were stationed during what the IDF called "proactive activity." The soldiers returned fire, "neutralizing" three of the Palestinian assailants, the IDF told Times of Israel. 

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, claimed the men killed as members.