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Israelis and Palestinians meet for talks on how to de-escalate recent wave of attacks

Palestinian demonstrators clash with the Israeli army while forces carry out an operation in the West Bank town of Nablus, on Aug. 9, 2022. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

JERUSALEM — The Jordanian government on Sunday announced that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to de-escalate tensions, shortly after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis in a shooting in the occupied West Bank.

Sunday's shooting marked the latest violence in a wave of fighting that has killed dozens of Israelis and Palestinians over the past year. Jordan invited the sides with the aim of reducing tensions ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

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