Two militants from the Palestinian radical Islamic Jihad faction were killed Wednesday by the Israeli army in the north of the occupied West Bank, witnesses and medics said. Salah Sawftah, 23, and Hossam Ayasseh, 30, were killed by Israeli forces in the village of Silat Al-Harithiya near the town of Jenin, they said. The Israeli troops surrounded a house with the two militants inside and an exchange of gunfire ensued, with the army firing shells and partly destroying the building. The bodies of the two men were found inside after the soldiers retreated. An Islamic Jihad spokesman said the two men had belonged to the group.