Hamas member killed in car blast

The body of a gunman who wounded four in Jerusalem is removed from scene.

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Another day of violence in the Middle East claimed three lives Monday and left at least seven people injured.

Palestinian security sources said Ayman Halaweh, a member of the military wing of Hamas, was killed and two others were injured Monday evening when their car blew up near the town of Nablus in the West Bank.

The Palestinian sources claimed that Halaweh, who was wanted by the Israelis, was assassinated by an Israeli car bomb and said Israeli helicopters were overhead at the time of the blast. The Israeli army refused to comment on the incident.

Also late Monday, Palestinian security sources said three tank rounds landed on the Franciscan children's hospital in Bethlehem. No one was injured and the hospital was evacuated.

The Israeli army said it knew of no such incident and denied any tank rounds were fired in that area in the past few hours.

Earlier Monday, a 62-year-old man died at Tul Karem on the West Bank when a tank round hit his house, the Palestine Red Crescent said. His daughter was injured.

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The Israel Defense Forces said soldiers spotted an armed man and opened fire toward him.

Earlier in the day, a gunman who opened fire with a pistol in the Talpiot industrial area of Jerusalem wounded at least four people before a soldier killed him, Jerusalem police said.

Authorities said the man was a resident of the West Bank. Some of the four wounded in Jerusalem were said to be in a "serious condition," but no other details were available.

"It was a terrorist with a gun shooting at the clients of the garages in this section of town, wounding some," said Ehud Olmert, the mayor of Jerusalem, who went to the scene.

"And there was a soldier with a gun that just caught him in time to kill him before he was continuing his shooting."

Asked how this will affect current relations with the Palestinian Authority, Olmert said, "It's too early to judge the ramifications, but one thing is certain -- that Chairman [Yasser] Arafat does not control the terrorist activities and they continue, which proves what we have been saying all the time, that the Palestinian Authority is not capable, or [is] unwilling, to take the necessary measures to stop terror, and we have to do it ourselves."

Israeli security forces also said rockets fired from Lebanon hit two Israeli outposts, but no injuries were reported.

The latest violence came as Israel continued to hold positions inside Palestinian towns across the West Bank and in the aftermath of the assassination last week of Rechavam Zeevi, the Israeli tourism minister.