Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers when they infiltrated an army base in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley on Thursday in a fresh surge of Middle East violence ahead of an anticipated U.S.-led peace drive. The army said in a statement the gunmen cut through a fence surrounding the base and opened fire with assault rifles, killing two soldiers and wounding nine more in the pre-dawn attack. Troops shot dead one gunman on the spot and the second was killed in a chase. An anonymous caller to Reuters claimed responsibility for the attack in the name of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction. Full Story
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