BEIJING — A security guard apparently angered by a court-imposed divorce settlement shot and killed three people and wounded three others at a courthouse in Hunan Province before turning the weapon on himself, the state media reported.
The number of lawsuits and value of settlements shot up.
Palestinian houses are only about 300 yards from the settlement, and shooting exchanges have been frequent during the current round of fighting.
Nearby Israeli soldiers, who were guarding a Jewish settlement, then shot and hit three Palestinians, including Abdel Rahman Jadalah, 9, who died of his wounds in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, hospital officials said.
In nearby El Bireh, hundreds greeted the triumphant homecoming of Israr Samarin and Musa Kar'an, who in 1991 ambushed Tzvi Klein, an off-duty soldier driving to his home in a nearby settlement, and shot him in the head.
Last December, an Israeli resident of a West Bank settlement was shot to death on a road near his home, and last month a Palestinian youth who had been throwing stones at Israeli cars passing his West Bank village was shot dead, when an Israeli settler whose car was hit opened fire.
Although attacks on Israelis in the West Bank have become less frequent in recent years, four Israeli civilians — two men and two women who lived in the Beit Hagai settlement — were shot dead in August while driving near Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank.
PAGE A12 Israel Withdraws From Gaza After Israeli troops began an overnight evacuation of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians rushed into the former settlements and shot off fireworks in celebration.
Virtually every village and settlement had a shooting match on weekends and holidays, often attracting a hundred or more marksmen.
He was waiting for the bus to arrive at the settlement and was shot when he rushed in a pickup truck to the scene of the attack.
