JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said two Israelis were killed in a shooting in the West Bank on Sunday morning.
A third woman was moderately injured, Israel's medical emergency service said.
The incident took place in the Barkan Industrial Zone, a settlement industrial compound in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Israelis and Palestinians work side by side.
The suspect was identified by the Shin Bet security service as a 23-year-old Palestinian man from the area of the West Bank city of Tul Karem.
He entered an office at a factory and opened fire before he fled the scene.
A military spokesperson said his identity is known to the security forces and a manhunt was launched.
Israeli media said the shooter was a former worker at the factory before he was fired recently.
"This was a very severe terrorist attack in which two Israelis were brutally murdered and a citizen was also wounded," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.
"The security forces are in pursuit of the reprehensible murderer," he said.
He added that the security forces will deal with the suspect "to the fullest extent of the law and quickly."
The incident came amid tensions in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have been staging daily rallies against the blockade imposed by Israel since 2007, and Israeli forces killed at least 190 people since the protest started on March 30.
