Summary
Fours Palestinians were shot and killed while attempting to attack Israeli security forces in three separate incidents in the West Bank Sunday, the Israeli military and police said.
In the first incident, the military said two Palestinians were throwing rocks at passing vehicles near the West Bank city of Jenin and when forces arrived at the scene Palestinians opened fire at them.
Sunday, a watchdog group said Israel began building 1,800 new settlement homes in the West Bank in 2015 .
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast War and built settlements there.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but nearly 600,000 Israeli settlers remain in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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