(KUNA) -- Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli army forces south of occupied Jerusalem, Palestinian sources said. The sources told KUNA the Israeli army kept hundreds of Palestinian workers at the Sheikh Saad check point for several hours, forcing two of them to sneak in sideways and the Israeli forces opened fire at them causing them serious injuries. Eyewitnesses said one of the workers was shot in the head and the other in the chest. They died of their wounds at one of the Israeli hospitals.Meanwhile, the popular resistance committees claimed they kidnapped a Jewish settler in the West Bank. A source at the committees told media in phone calls that people from the committees abducted the settler. He did not mention further details, and the Israelis did not confirm the abduction.