JERUSALEM — Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle in the West Bank on Monday, killing an Israeli police officer and wounding two others in a flare-up of violence after months of calm.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incident occurred near Hebron, a volatile city in the southern West Bank, where hard-line Jewish settlers live in fortified enclaves amid tens of thousands of Palestinians.
There was no claim of responsibility. But Rosenfeld said police were treating the incident as an attack by Palestinian militants and were searching the area for suspects.
Palestinian Premier Salam Fayyad denounced the attack and said his government would work to prevent such incidents. “Experience has shown that violence harms the Palestinian national cause,” he said. The Associated Press
