Tensions Soar After Deadly West Bank Shooting

Israel has sent hundreds of troop reinforcements to the West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish couple in a drive-by shooting. Military sources say the assailants drove up alongside the Israeli vehicle and riddled it with bullets. The couple’s four children, ages 9, 7, 4 and four months, watched their parents die but escaped unharmed. Such shootings were common during the Second Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, from 2000-2004, but in recent years they have been relatively...

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