20 other Palestinians injured in area's first such incursion.
Terrified residents flee homes.
One Israeli soldier was also hurt. Throughout the morning and into early afternoon, explosions reverberated and smoke billowed from Beit Jala, a suburb of Bethlehem just south of Jerusalem. Israel said it pushed into Beit Jala to stop Palestinian gunmen who were firing on Israeli army positions and on a nearby road used primarily by Jewish settlers. If they do shoot, there will be war. From the beginning of the uprising, mostly Muslim Palestinian gunmen from elsewhere in the West Bank used the residential streets of Beit Jala to fire on the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo on Jerusalem's southern outskirts.