Israel closed the West Bank on Friday after heavily armed Hamas terrorists killed two soldiers in a lengthy gun battle in a planned “major attack aimed at murdering innocent civilians,” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The attackers, both 27-year-old Hebron residents, were armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun when they launched the assault near Yehuda Junction around 7:30 a.m., killing Israeli Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, in a 20-minute exchange of fire.
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