More Senseless Deaths on Both Sides

From CNN:

Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli couple traveling early Sunday in northern West Bank, killing a man, Israeli military officials said.

The gunmen opened fire at the couple's vehicle outside the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, the officials said. They were headed toward Israel.

The man's wife was treated for shock, but otherwise was unharmed, Israeli medical officials said.

The Israeli Web site Haaretz reported that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a military offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the killing.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has attacked military and civilian targets in Israel, and in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. The U.S. State Department considers it a foreign terrorist organization.

Near Jerusalem, Israeli border police shot and killed a Palestinian after he led police on a car chase through the city's outskirts and then tried to evade arrest, an Israeli police spokesman said.

The man was apparently transporting Palestinian laborers who did not have permits to work in Israel, he said.

Well, at least Israel hasn't decided to name the big security wall "The Freedom Gate".