Settler killed by Palestinian fighters
Palestinian fighters have attacked a settler’s car on a West Bank road, killing one person and wounding another, an Israeli military source said.
The source did not identify the casualties but an Israeli emergency service spokesman confirmed the man killed in Friday’s shooting was a Jewish settler and that his wife was wounded.
The attack occurred near the Jewish settlement of Shvut Rachel, east of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
Rise in violence
Israeli-Palestinian relations have plunged further since the collapse last week of a truce that Islamic resistance groups had declared in a nearly three-year-old Intifada or uprising for statehood.
Israel had not recognised the truce and continued its raids into Palestinian territory.
The recent violence has included a bus bombing that killed 21 people in Jerusalem on 19 August and the deaths of eight members of the Hamas resistance group in Israeli helicopter missile strikes.