Palestinian gunman wounds 2 Israelis in Jerusalem shooting

A Palestinian assailant opened fire at an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem on Saturday night, wounding four people, two of them seriously, Israeli authorities said, hours after a pair of Palestinian teenagers were killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.
It was the latest bloodshed in the deadliest round of fighting in the area in seven years. It also came less than 24 hours before Israel was to begin celebrating the weeklong Sukkot holiday, a time when tens of thousands of Jews visit the holy city.
Saturday night’s shooting occurred at a checkpoint near the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem. Police said the assailant got out of a car and opened fire, wounding a female soldier and a security guard before running into the camp.
Israeli rescue services said the woman was in critical condition and the man was in serious condition. Police said two members of the paramilitary border police unit were lightly wounded by shrapnel.