Israeli Soldiers Shot Dead

Two off duty Israeli soldiers were shot dead while hiking in the West Bank. They were killed by Palestinian gunmen, but before they died, they managed to fire back at their assailants and kill one of them. A second Palestinian assailant was seriously wounded in the firefight according to the army. A woman who was with the two Israelis but escaped unharmed told Israel Radio they had been hiking in the hills outside the Palestinian town of Hebron and not far from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba where all three lived. They were approached by a jeep carrying a group of Palestinian gunmen who fired at them, said the woman.