West Bank village Settlers rampage after Israelis killed
One Palestinian man was killed, and more than 100 others were injured in the violence near Nablus on Sunday night, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Dozens of cars and houses were also burnt, according to a local official.
It followed the killings of the two Israelis - brothers from a nearby settlement - along a highway.
The Israeli military said it continued searching for the Palestinian who shot Hillel Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaniv, 20, and that it had moved in hundreds of extra troops.
On Monday afternoon, an Israeli man was shot and wounded in an attack on a highway north of Beit HaArava Junction, east of the West Bank near the Dead Sea, Israel's ambulance service said.
The 25-year-old was in critical condition and was being taken by paramedics to a hospital in Jerusalem, it added.
The incidents came after Israeli and Palestinian officials had pledged to de-escalate tensions at a summit in Jordan.
Videos posted hours after the summit ended on Sunday showed a large crowd of Israeli settlers entering the village of Hawara, about 4 miles (6km) south of Nablus, lighting fires and throwing stones.
Ten-year-old Lamar Abusarees said her house was one of those set alight.
"My mother moved us to a corner because there was no safe place. They broke all the windows while we were inside," she told Reuters news agency.
A Palestinian official who monitors settlements in the Nablus region, Ghassan Daghlas, told Palestinian Wafa news agency that 30 houses were damaged by stones or burned down in Hawara, and that 15 vehicles were torched.
Settlers also set a barn and three vehicles on fire in nearby Burin, as well as a house and a water tank in Asira al-Qabaliyya, he said.
The Palestinian health ministry said 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash died after being shot in the stomach during an attack by settlers in Zaatara.
Mr Aqtash's brother, Abdul Moneim, said they had been standing outside a blacksmith's when they were attacked by settlers.
"They left the area and then came back with the occupation [Israeli] army," he told AFP news agency. "The army shot my brother, not the settlers."
However, the Israeli military said Mr Aqtash was not shot by an Israeli soldier.
This part of the West Bank falls under full Israeli control, and Palestinians criticised Israeli security forces for failing to protect them.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he held the Israeli government fully responsible for what he called "the terrorist acts carried out by Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces".
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appealed for calm and urged settlers to allow the Israeli military and security forces to focus on finding the gunman who killed the two Israelis.
"I ask that when blood is boiling and the spirit is hot, don't take the law into your hands," he said in a video statement.
UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said he was "gravely concerned by the deteriorating security situation".
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