he infiltrated a West Bank Jewish settlement, local residents said.
Eye-witnesses quoted by The Jerusalem Post newspaper and other organizations said the man went on a shooting spree near the Orthodox boarding school in the Samaria community of Itamar, close to Nablus.
A local security guard finally shot and killed the terrorist, who reportedly tried to reach a complex housing the religious seminary, eye-witnesses told reporters.
Before he was shot dead, the Palestinian gunmen apparently also managed to fire several shots in the direction of the religious site, killing one Israeli and wounding two others, The Jerusalem Post said on its internet site.
TERRORIST
Israeli media reported that the terrorist, who apparently acted alone, may have come from the nearby village of Beit Furik, according to Israeli media.
Residents were asked to remain inside their homes as the army launched an operation to locate possible other terrorists involved in the attack and airlifted the wounded to a nearby hospital, The Jerusalem Post reported.
In a separate incident Tuesday, May 28, a Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli man near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra, north of Jerusalem, said the Voice of America (VOA) broadcasting network and news agencies.
RAID
The news about the latest incidents came as VOA quoted Palestinian sources as saying that Israeli troops also moved back into the West Bank city of Ramallah in search for a leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli army raided another West Bank town, Jenin, and arrested suspected militants hours after Monday’s suicide bomb attack in a suburb of Tel Aviv which killed two Israelis – an infant and her grandmother, and wounded up to 50 other people in a shopping mall.
One of those arrested by the army in connection with this or other attacks was a local Hamas leader, while another Palestinian man was killed before Israeli troops left the town again, reporters said.
REVENGE
The al- Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with close ties to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide . It said the attack was in revenge for Israel’s killing of three al-Aqsa members last week near the West Bank town of Nablus.
United States President George W. Bush, who condemned the attack, was sending Assistant Secretary of State William Burns on Tuesday, May 28, to the region to revive peace efforts. C-I-A Director George Tenet was likely to follow at the end of the week, according to several reports.
