A security guard at an Israeli nightclub has shot and killed a suspected Palestinian militant who was allegedly attempting to drive a car bomb into the building in Tel Aviv.

Two Palestinian gunmen have opened fire on an Israeli border police patrol, killing one Israeli before they were shot dead. The gunmen were in a car travelling from the West Bank towards Israel when they encountered border police at Baka al-Gharbiya.

The Al-Aqsa Brigade, a militia linked to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, has claimed responsibility for today's Jerusalem suicide bombing, which killed at least three people.

Israel has vowed to retaliate against the Palestinians after militants killed two Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank yesterday and injured eight in a gun attack at a bus stop in a disputed part of Jerusalem.

A suspected Palestinian gunman has killed an Israeli motorist after opening fire on him from a passing vehicle in the West Bank today.