The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two men killed in the West Bank village of Deir al Hatab as Saud Abdullah Saud and Mohammed Abu Dira.
Israeli Army. Photo: Reuters
The Israeli military said men fired at an Israeli outpost near the Elon Moreh settlement in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Israeli soldiers on patrol opened fire, killing two gunmen.
Palestinian media reported that a third person fled the area in a vehicle. Israeli security forces said they were searching for other suspected attackers and found a pair of M-16 rifles and a pistol at the scene.
The local armed group in the Balata refugee camp, a militia stronghold near Nablus, identified the two men as its own. Saud had previously spent 15 years in an Israeli prison, the group said.
The incident comes after an unusually high week of violence in Israel and the West Bank, sparked by an Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, the Al-Aqsa mosque complex.
Last week, the Israeli military struck sites linked to the Palestinian group Hamas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip after militants in the two territories fired a barrage of rockets into Israel.
A British-Israeli family of three died last week after their car was attacked in the West Bank. In a separate incident, an Italian tourist was killed and five others injured when a Palestinian drove his car into a bike path near a beach in Tel Aviv, in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.
At least 94 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank so far this year, half of them linked to militant groups. Another 19 have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israelis.
Trung Kien (according to AP)
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