Palestinian Ambulance Workers Killed in West Bank

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian ambulance workers on Thursday when they shot at their vehicles in Tulkarm in the West Bank, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said.

Witnesses and hospital officials said Tammam Salem, 38, was shot dead as his U.N. Relief and Works Agency ambulance traveled through the Tulkram refugee camp, where Israeli troops had seized positions and conducted house-to-house searches for suspected militants.

Ambulance driver Ibrahaim Assad was shot dead as he drove his Palestinian Red Crescent vehicle in Tulkarm city, medics said.