Deaths in Middle East

Two Palestinians and an Israeli have been killed in separate incidents in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Israeli was shot dead on the main West Bank road north of Jerusalem, near the Givat Zeev settlement.

In another incident a Palestinian man was shot by soldiers during a clash in the West Bank village of Khirbit Ijbara.

And elsewhere, an eighteen-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops near the Karni crossing between Israel and Gaza.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service