Israeli soldier killed, Palestinian teen attack, suspect shot dead amid ,violent surge.

An Israeli soldier has been killed and several other people wounded in a suspected lorry ramming attack by a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank.

It comes at a tense time where deadly violence there has surged to a level not seen for some two decades.

Overnight, Palestinian militants set off an improvised explosive device near a convoy of Israeli troops in Nablus.

In Jerusalem, a 14-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by an Israeli police officer after allegedly stabbing a man.

According to an Israeli military official, the suspected ramming attack was carried out by a Palestinian man, who was 41 and had a permit to work in Israel. He was driving eastwards in a lorry towards the Maccabim crossing when he made a sudden U-turn.