Palestinian attacker opens fire at West Bank gas station, kills at least 4 people

By ISABEL DEBRE
Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say that a Palestinian attacker has opened fire at a gas station near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, killing at least four people and wounding several others, as violence continued to roil the occupied territory. Israeli security forces said they also shot and killed another Palestinian assailant who later fled the shooting scene. The attack underscored the fragility of the situation in the West Bank, where on Monday an Israeli military raid into the northern Jenin refugee camp ignited some of the fiercest Israeli-Palestinian fighting in years, killing six Palestinians. Palestinian militants targeted Israeli military vehicles with bombs and Israeli forces deployed helicopter gunships to evacuate stranded troops.