An Israeli settler has been shot dead when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in the West Bank, medics and police said.
The man in his 40s was found shot in the head in a bullet-riddled car on the road between the Jewish settlements of Einav and Shavei Shomron in the northern West Bank on Thursday, the head of Magen David Adom emergency services told AFP news agency.
He died of his wounds shortly after the attack, he said.
Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said the assailants have not been caught but that security forces were combing the area near the site of the shooting in the northern West Bank.
The West Bank has seen little violence in recent years as Palestinian security forces have deployed in cities across the Israeli-occupied territory.
Nearly a half million Israelis live in dozens of illegal settlements scattered across the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories occupied in the 1967 Six Day War that the Palestinians have demanded as part of their future state.
The fate of the settlements has been one of the thorniest issues in past rounds of Middle East peace talks, and the Palestinians have demanded a complete halt to settlement building ahead of any new round of negotiations.
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