A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement, returned home yesterday after she was freed early following an appeal.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated today that peace talks won’t begin until violence ends, and Israel will not return to its ‘‘vulnerable’’ borders that existed before the 1967 Mideast war.

Two Jewish settlers were killed and four wounded when Palestinians opened fire on mobile homes in the West Bank early today.

Two international observers based in Hebron have been shot dead in an ambush in the West Bank.