JERUSALEM – Palestinians shot and killed one Israeli and wounded two others early Sunday near Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site inside the Palestinian city of Nablus, the Israeli military and rescue services said.
One man approximately 30 years old reached an Israeli base nearby before dying of his wounds, the military and rescue services said. Two others, approximately 20 and 17, reached a Jewish settlement outside Nablus with bullet wounds and were rushed to a hospital.
Jewish worshippers often enter the city with a military escort to pray at the tomb of the biblical patriarch, located inside a Palestinian-ruled area. Those visits are coordinated with Palestinian security forces. But the entrance of Israelis on Friday appeared not to have been coordinated with either side.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear.
The last attack against Israelis in the West Bank occurred in the same area on March 11, when attackers entered a Jewish settlement and killed five members of a family, including parents and children ages 11, 4 and three months.
The Israeli military has arrested two Palestinians for that killing.
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