The two young Israeli settlers were wounded by gunfire in their car at a checkpoint in Huwara on Sunday. They later died in hospital from their injuries. The Israeli government spoke of a "terrorist Palestinian attack".
During the riots that followed, Israeli settlers set fire to several Palestinian homes, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The Israeli army said it had evacuated dozens of Palestinians from their homes threatened by flames.
According to the Palestinian Red Cross, 98 people were treated. Most of them had therefore inhaled tear gas. The Israeli rescue service announced that three Israelis were injured by stones thrown.
Eyewitness Abdullah Al-Huwari reported that "large numbers of settlers" attacked Huwara village, setting houses and cars on fire. "I see flames in front of me," said the 36-year-old during the riots. "Everywhere I look I see the flames of a burning house".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for calm in a video: "Even if the blood is boiling", nobody should "take the law into their own hands". Israeli President Isaac Herzog strongly condemned the acts of revenge. "Taking the law into your own hands, rioting and committing acts of violence against innocent people - that's not our way," he said.
Netanyahu and Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir previously said the two Israeli settlers had been killed in a "Palestinian terrorist attack". No one initially claimed responsibility for the attack. However, the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad spoke of a "heroic effort".
According to the Shomron Regional Administration, which manages the Israeli settlements in the area, the dead were two brothers, aged 20 and 22, from the nearby settlement of Har Bracha.
Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials met Sunday in Jordan for the first time in years. At the "intensive and open talks" in the port city of Aqaba on the Red Sea, in which representatives from Jordan, Egypt and the USA also took part, both sides agreed, according to a joint statement, to work towards "de-escalation" and "to prevent new violence".
The meeting was arranged after months of violent clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli army. According to Palestinian sources, eleven people, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed in an Israeli army operation in Nablus on Wednesday. 80 people were injured. It was the bloodiest Israeli army operation in the West Bank since 2005.
Several rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The Israeli army then launched airstrikes on targets in the Palestinian territories.
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