New: Two Israeli soldiers were killed and three wounded this morning when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a temporary checkpoint near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The IDF named the dead man as Saram. Ron Yonatan Roitman, 23 years old from Ashkelon, and Sgt. Yuval Shay Swillem, 20 years old from Hod Hasharon.
Netanyahu ordered preparations for a complete closure of the West Bank ahead of the Israeli elections on October 27.