Gunmen kill Israeli in West Bank attack
An Israeli was killed and three othersinjured tonight when Palestinian gunmen attacked a West Bank settlement. One of the gunmen was shot and killed.
Troops were searching the settlement of Kiryat Arba and the adjacent town of Hebron for one of the gunmen who escaped, the military officials said.
The attack began after dark when the two gunmen attacked a home, shooting and killing a man as he opened the door, and then shooting and lightly injuring a woman and a young girl. Another Israeli was moderately injured in the attack.
Tensions have been high in the area since November when 12 Israeli security forces were killed in an ambush by Palestinian gunmen between Kiryat Arba and Hebron. But the region has been relatively calm recently despite more than two years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called last week on militant groups to abstain from attacks in order not to influence the Israeli elections on January 28.
