Two gunmen killed an Israeli guard at the entrance of a settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said, and soldiers deployed to a nearby Palestinian town in search of the attackers.
In an apparently unrelated incident soon after the attack in Ariel late on Friday, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank village of Azzun, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Israel's military said soldiers there shot at suspects who had thrown firebombs at them.
The shooting in Ariel took to 15 the tally of people killed by Arab attackers in Israel and West Bank settlements in recent weeks, Israeli authorities say.
