Four Israelis killed in West Bank

An Israeli boy wounded during a shooting ambush Friday is wheeled into a Jerusalem hospital.

HEBRON, West Bank (CNN) -- Four Israelis were killed at Hebron Friday when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on two cars driving along a road used by settlers, Israeli officials said.

One person was moderately injured and two others lightly injured, according to ambulance services.

Israeli authorities said there was a single shooting incident in which both cars were fired on as they drove along the road used by Jewish settlers and Israeli troops. The cars fled in separate directions.

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A settlement spokesman described the gunfire as drive-by shootings, saying Palestinians pulled up next to the cars along a 4 kilometer strip of the road.

A father, a mother, and a son from a settlement near Jerusalem were killed in one car. A settler from Hebron was killed in the second car and two other people were wounded.

The spokesman said the road south of Hebron and is used principally by settlers and the Israeli army.

Early Friday, two metal workshops in Gaza City were mined and blown up by Israeli forces, injuring four people, Palestinian security sources said. Israel said the workshops were used to produce Qassam rockets.

An Israeli bulldozer, accompanied by tanks and jeeps, entered an eastern neighborhood of the city, the sources said. After destroying the facilities, the Israelis withdrew.

The two shops belonged to members of the same extended family, sources said.

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