HEBRON: Palestinian militants killed a Jewish settler and wounded several more in a West Bank drive-by shooting on Friday in a new blow to a faltering Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire.

The attack, the second killing of a settler in four days, followed Israel’s detention of 63 suspected Islamic Jihad militants in the West Bank and resumption of a policy of assassinating the group’s leaders.

The ceasefire agreed in February has been fraying for weeks in Gaza, raising the spectre of disruption to Israel’s planned pullout from the territory later this year.

Several other settlers were wounded when militants fired from a passing car at a hitch-hiking post near the West Bank city of Hebron and shortly afterwards at a vehicle near a settlement, the Israeli army said.—Reuters