Palestinian gunmen kill motorist in West Bank

Palestinian gunmen attacked an Israeli car on a West Bank road today, killing one person and wounding another, a military source…

Palestinian gunmen attacked an Israeli car on a West Bank road today, killing one person and wounding another, a military source said.

The source did not identify the casualties but an Israeli spokesman said the man killed in the 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.

Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged since the collapse last week of a truce that Islamic militants had declared in a nearly three-year-old uprising for statehood.

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The bloodshed has included a suicide bombing that killed 21 people in Jerusalem on August 19th and the deaths of eight members of the militant Hamas group in Israeli helicopter missile strikes.