2 Palestinians killed in West Bank raid; Israel and Palestinian militants trade fire in Gaza

On Saturday, Israel and Palestinian militants unleashed salvos of fire for a fifth day, with the Islamic Jihad militant group launching dozens more rockets and the Israeli military pounding targets inside the Gaza Strip. 

Missile shrapnel that slammed into an agricultural community in Israel's southern Negev desert severely wounded two Palestinians from Gaza in their 40s who had been working in Israel and moderately wounded another 36-year-old man, Israeli medics said.

But in a reminder of the combustible situation in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military raided the Balata refugee camp near the northern city of Nablus, sparking a firefight that killed two Palestinians.