ISRAEL vowed to “lock down” the entire occupied West Bank of Palestine today after a shootout that left two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians dead.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had reviewed a “very extensive operation in the West Bank that will be unprecedented since 1967,” when Israel seized the territory, raising fears of invasion, bombing and destruction on the scale Israel has inflicted on Gaza in recent years.

ISRAEL vowed to “lock down” the entire occupied West Bank of Palestine today after a shootout that left two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians dead.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had reviewed a “very extensive operation in the West Bank that will be unprecedented since 1967,” when Israel seized the territory, raising fears of invasion, bombing and destruction on the scale Israel has inflicted on Gaza in recent years.

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