A Palestinian militant killed a Jewish settler and wounded another before being shot dead by settlement guards in the West Bank Friday, an Israeli military source said.
The Palestinian opened fire on the settlers' car close to the settlement of Itamar, in the northern West Bank near the Palestinian town of Nablus, killing the driver and slightly wounding the passenger.
The driver was named as Shlomo Miller, 50, the security coordinator at Itamar.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the militant as Yussef Ahmed Hanani, 25, a lieutenant in the Palestinian preventive security police from the nearby village of Beit Furik.
Elsewhere, four Palestinians suffered bullet wounds during an Israeli army incursion early Friday into the Zeitun sector of Gaza City, Palestinian security sources said.
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