Bethlehem – Ma’an – Ramallah police found the bodies of two young men in the city's Umm Ash-Sharayet neighborhood overnight, officials said, and have opened an investigation into their murder.

The men, identified as 23-year-old Hussein Mahmoud Abdul Baqy and 34-year-old Iyad Mahmoud Da’oud Thaher from the Gaza Strip, were found with multiple knife wounds. Police say the men, one an UNRWA worker, were stabbed to detah.