JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military on Saturday said its forces killed two people in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, after one infiltrated an Israeli settlement and another shot at soldiers after his car exploded.
Israel’s ambulance service said two men were wounded by gunshots in the incidents. It did not identify them.
There was no immediate Palestinian comment.
“Terrorists attempted to run over a security guard at the entrance to the community Karmei Tzur a short while ago and infiltrated the community,” the military said, referring to an Israeli settlement.
Soldiers who arrived at the scene killed one assailant who had opened fire at them and were searching for others, it said.
In another incident, a car caught fire and exploded in a gas station, the military said.
It said forces sent to the scene “shot and eliminated the terrorist who exited the vehicle and tried to attack them.”
The military said it was too soon to know if the incidents were related.
Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before the war in Gaza, has escalated recently, with stepped-up Israeli military raids and settler and Palestinian street violence.
(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
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