An Israeli soldier was wounded in a West Bank shooting attack on Thursday and his alleged assailant was shot, the army said in a statement, without giving further details.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that a Palestinian was shot dead at the scene of the incident, at the West Bank village of Hizmeh, north of Jerusalem.

Israeli media said that an Israeli civilian was also injured.  

A wave of violence erupted on October 1 and has so far claimed the lives of more than 120 people, including 104 Palestinians and 17 Israelis.

Early on Thursday Israeli troops demolished the home of a Palestinian the army said organised the fatal attack that sparked the current unrest, the shooting of a Jewish settler couple as they drove in the northern West Bank with their young children.
Source: AFP