Two Palestinians were shot dead Monday by Israeli troops in the West Bank.
The first was killed in Ramallah, while the second was killed in Bethlehem.
20-year-old Zyad Abou Sway was killed while walking along a road not far from Al-Khaderin near Bethlehem, reports said.
Another Palestinian was seriously injured in the attack, said AFP.
The shots came from the vicinity of a Jewish settlement where an Israeli man was killed by Palestinian fire on Sunday, AFP added.
The 35-year-old man was hit by bullets as he drove near the Jewish settlement of Gilo in east Jerusalem, causing him to lose control over his car which then flipped over. Another three Israelis were lightly injured, said Haaretz newspaper.
The settler was identified as Tzahi Sasson, said the paper, adding that he was a resident at the Rosh Tzurim Jewish settlement.
It was the first time in a month that Palestinians had fired on Gilo. Israeli soldiers fired heavily in response to the attack, which was launched from the Palestinian town of Beit Jala near Bethlehem, said AFP.
Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers went door to door in Beit Jala looking for the culprits of the attack, added the agency.
The gunfights, in which Palestinians first targeted Israeli soldiers, cut off electricity to Gilo where an apartment building and two cars were also damaged. Calm returned at about 11:00 p.m. (2100 GMT).
Meanwhile, Haaretz reported that a large bomb was detonated Monday against an Israeli patrol on a road near the Jewish settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip, spurring gun battles between Israeli troops and armed Palestinians.
There were no injuries reported.
Incidents between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers were also reported Sunday near Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, in the Palestinian village of el-Khader and at the Palestinian refugee camp of Aida, with three Palestinians injured, according to Palestinian sources.
They said two homes were burned in Aida after Israeli tanks opened fire, although an Israeli military spokesman denied the army used tanks, according to the agency.
Earlier Sunday, two Palestinians were wounded, one of them in the head, when Israeli troops fired on demonstrators near the Karni crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Another man was shot and injured in a similar clash in el-Khader, while skirmishes were also reported in Hebron, without any reports of injuries, reports said.
Israeli military radio said the army was targeted in a number of other incidents late Sunday, with military positions hit in Jenin in the northern West Bank, Ofer and Pesagot Jewish settlements near Ramallah, and near the Neveh Dekalim settlement in the southern Gaza Strip. No one was injured in the attacks, Haaretz added.
Separately, residents of the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip were told to take shelter by the army out of fear of more attacks.
The day before, an 81-mm shell landed in the settlement, although it caused no casualties or damage.
"The escalation in recent days is a mainly qualitative escalation," senior military officials told he paper.
"There is a clear rise in the number of shooting incidents, as well as in the precision of the shooting," they said, adding that "it was very noticeable that the Palestinian hits were more precise."
Unrest in the territories has been on the rise since the election of Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon as prime minister - Albawaba.com
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