Israel kills two gunmen infiltrating from Gaza

Two Palestinian gunmen who climbed over Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip yesterday attacked a military base and made their way towards a civilian community before soldiers tracked them down and killed them.

In the occupied West Bank, an Israeli force disguised as Palestinians killed the local head of the Islamic Jihad group in the city of Jenin and a bystander, Palestinian ambulance crews said.

The incidents were part of a surge of weekend violence in which eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops. All but two - a 13-year-old Israeli Arab boy visiting relatives in the West Bank and the bystander in Jenin - were gunmen.

Later, Gaza militants set off a roadside bomb at an Israeli army vehicle on a routine patrol along the border in the southern part of the strip, lightly wounding four soldiers.