Israel kills four Palestinians in camp raid

An Israeli military raid on a West Bank refugee camp last night killed four Palestinians dead.

An Israeli military raid on a West Bank refugee camp last night killed four Palestinians dead.

Israeli soldiers surrounded a house in the Tulkarem refugee camp and and fired on the occupants.

The bodies of four dead were brought to the Tulkarem hospital an hour later. Residents said they were members of Islamic Jihad. Two other Palestinians were wounded, they said.

Earlier in Jerusalem, a Palestinian stabbed two young ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Old City, police said. One of the victims later died of his wounds. The assailant escaped.

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Israeli media reported that the dead man was a young seminary student from Britain. His name was not released.