Shooting attack on Israeli bus in the West Bank

Two Israelis have been hurt in a shooting attack on a bus in the West Bank.

The shooting occurred on the main north-south West Bank road, between Bethlehem and Hebron.

Shots were fired at an Israeli bus servicing Jewish settlements in the area.

The attack comes as Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told settlers there is no immediate solution to a spate of shootings in the area.

The prime minister's office, meanwhile, said two Palestinians involved in the brutal lynching of two Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian mob in October have been arrested.

The soldiers were beaten to death in a Palestinian police station in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israel has said it will track down all those involved in the killings, and in recent months detained a number of Palestinian suspects.

In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians fired two mortar shells at the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said. No one was injured. Palestinian police denied mortar shells had been fired.

Palestinian security officials, meanwhile, said an Israeli army tank and bulldozer entered a Palestinian-controlled area in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, flattening land that had previously been razed. The army said it knew nothing about the incident.

More than two dozen Israelis have been killed in drive-by shootings in the West Bank in nine months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.