India, April 22 -- An Israeli settler shot and killed two Palestinians near a school east of Ramallah on Tuesday morning, authorities said, in the latest episode of violence convulsing the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan and 32-year-old Jihad Abu Naim were killed in an attack by settlers on the village of al-Mughayyir that left three others wounded.  Kazem Al-Hajj Mohammad, who witnessed the shooting, said that there was a volley of gunfire after settlers and the army arrived.

School administrators told parents to come get their children and were met with more gunfire and tear gas. That's when the two were killed, he said.

He and other mourners carried the two bodies sheat...