Jerusalem, Oct. 23 -- 5 people were injured, 2 of them critically during a shooting incident in Hebron in the South West Bank in Israel. Israeli police said 2 gunmen involved in the terror attack were shot dead

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told the Times of Israel that the soldiers who killed the two Palestinian gunmen in the southern West Bank had prevented a more severe attack.

"This was a serious attack. The troops' swift action prevented an even more serious attack and further harm to civilians and security forces," he said.

Zamir says that "a large quantity of ammunition was found in the vehicle in which the terrorists arrived at the scene of the attack, which was intended to be used to carry out a larger-scale attack."...