A suspected Palestinian gunman opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, wounding a security guard before he was shot dead by forces at the scene, Israel's police said.
Police distributed a photo of an M-16 rifle they said was used by the gunman to carry out the shooting at the Qalandia checkpoint.
They said his identity was not yet known but that he had arrived on foot from inside the West Bank.Violence surged this week in the West Bank, where for over a year the military has conducted regular sweeps leading to repeated clashes with Palestinian fighters amid a spate of Palestinian street attacks on Israelis.
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