Hamas says commander killed near Ramallah

Hamas says one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank, Mohammed Jaber Abdo, was amongst the four Palestinian fighters killed near the city of Ramallah by Israeli forces on Monday.

Israeli soldiers had raided the village of Kafr Nima in a search for a man they accused of carrying out an arson attack on an illegal West Bank settlement.

The troops fired on the vehicle the four men were in, killing all of them and injuring eight others in the raid.