11 Dead in Mideast Violence

JERUSALEM — Soldiers shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank and guerrillas killed nine people in Israeli-held southern Lebanon as violence erupted anew Monday amid efforts to revive stalled Middle East peace talks.

Muslim extremists warned that they will unleash suicide attacks on Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, saying Israelis will “cry in blood” for the Feb. 25 mosque massacre in Hebron.

The Palestinians were shot to death in Hebron, where the massacre took place, after an army jeep was stoned near the town’s Israeli headquarters.

Four other Arabs were wounded in clashes after the Israelis lifted a 10-day-old curfew to allow townspeople to buy food.

The killings, the first since Friday, raised to 29 the toll in the aftermath of the mosque slaughter, in which more than 40 Muslims were gunned down by a Jewish settler as they prayed.

In the Gaza Strip, Associated Press photographer John Gaps III, a 35-year-old American, was shot in the leg by an Israeli army sniper.

The army said a soldier and a police officer were wounded in Gaza by a gunman in a car who opened up on them after crashing a roadblock.

In southern Lebanon, Muslim guerrillas killed seven militiamen of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army when three bombs exploded in Israel’s self-designated “security zone,” security sources said.