Israel troops shoots dead Palestinian woman, 72

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 72-year-old female Palestinian motorist who the military said tried to run them over in the occupied West Bank. Elsewhere, a knife-wielding assailant wounded an Israeli civilian.

The incidents extended a five-week-old campaign of Palestinian attacks fuelled in part by Muslim anger at stepped-up Jewish visits to a contested Jerusalem shrine, as well as by long-deadlocked peacemaking with Israel.

Eleven Israelis have been killed in stabbings, shootings, or other attacks. Israeli forces have shot dead at least 70 Palestinians, including 42 who Israel says were carrying out or about to carry out attacks. Many were teenagers.