Palestinian kills two Israeli soldiers after Israel kills two in West Bank raids


  • World
  • Thursday, 13 Dec 2018

A boy looks on as he stands in a damaged house where a Palestinian gunman was killed by Israeli forces, near Nablus in the Israel-occupied West Bank December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli soldiers at a bus station in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israel's military said, hours after Israeli forces killed two Hamas fugitives it blamed for earlier deadly attacks.

Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said the gunman had climbed from a car at a junction near Ofra settlement and opened fire at Israeli troops and civilians standing nearby. In addition to the two soldiers killed, a third was wounded.

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