Palestinian gunmen shot dead four Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in an attack the militant Hamas group said was a response to a raid by Israeli forces a day earlier in the flashpoint city of Jenin.
Four other people were wounded when the gunmen opened fire at a roadside restaurant and a gas station by the Eli settlement, emergency services said. One of the fatalities was a high school student, the Foreign Ministry said.
The Islamist Hamas group said the two gunmen were members of its armed wing. One was shot dead by a civilian