Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded 19 others on Monday in a clash in the West Bank’s Qalandiya refugee camp, AFP reported.

Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded 19 others on Monday in a clash in the West Bank's Qalandiya refugee camp, AFP reported.

Palestinian hospital officials told the news agency that Rubeen Abed Fares, 30, and Yunis Jahjouh, 22, were both shot in the chest and Jihad Aslan, 20, died of brain damage, adding that all the casualties had been hit by live ammunition.

A Zionist police spokeswoman said that border police used "riot dispersal means" to disperse a stone-throwing crowd of 1,500 people, indicating that “three injured were taken to a (Palestinian) hospital but we do not know of danger to their lives.”

She added that “three border policemen were slightly injured by stones”.