Israelis killed in West Bank and Jordan

Noah Bloomberg, right, mourns his mother Tehiya Monday in the West Bank; killed in weekend violence, she was eight months pregnant.

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Two Israelis were shot and killed in the West Bank Tuesday, the latest violence in more than 10 months of bloody clashes with Palestinians.

In the first incident, an Israeli Arab was killed in a shooting by Palestinian gunmen near the West Bank town of Qalqilya, the Israeli army said.

According to the Israel Defense Force, the man was traveling in a car with Israeli license plates and came under fire in a part of the West Bank known as Area C, a section under the supervision of the Israelis. He was from the northern West Bank town of Taibeh.

In the second incident, Israeli medical sources said a Palestinian shot and killed an Israeli Tuesday night on a road in the West Bank. No details were immediately available on that shooting.

The shootings followed the death Monday night of an Israeli businessman gunned down in Amman, Jordan.

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Israeli Radio said he was a diamond dealer who lived in the Tel Aviv area but also rented an apartment in Amman. The shooting took place in a commercial center known as the Jaber Compound.

Israel Radio reported U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzler has told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the U.S. State Department is working on a plan for monitoring implementation of the Mitchell Report recommendations.

Israel Radio said the monitoring would be carried out under the direction of the CIA station chief in Tel Aviv.

At his ranch in Texas, U.S. President George Bush said the United States was pushing the two sides to accept a plan crafted by former Sen. George Mitchell so that "sanity will prevail."

The Mitchell Report calls for a cooling-off period and then resumption of peace talks.

Although both Israel and the Palestinians say they support the Mitchell recommendations, the two sides have not been able to agree on how to implement them or when.

The president told reporters he had assured Jordan's King Abdullah the United States remained fully involved.

"I spoke to the king the other day," Bush said, "and I told him that we're very much involved. Our administration is in contact with the Israelis and the Palestinians on a regular basis. We will continue to do so. It is important for both sides to break the cycle of violence.

An Israeli soldier looks on as traffic piles up at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the Kalandiya refugee camp on Tuesday.

"We have laid out a framework to get to Mitchell. And once into Mitchell, hopefully sanity will prevail. But we haven't even gotten into Mitchell yet, and we can't get into Mitchell until violence stops," Bush continued.

"I talked to Condi [National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice] this morning; we're constantly in touch," Bush said. "You know, our ambassador went to see Prime Minister Sharon yesterday, and we're continuing high-level contacts on both sides."

Bush also said he had sent a letter to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about the situation in the Middle East.