sentences:  This view has been rejected by the International Court of Justice and the International Committee of the Red Cross.In December 2002, four students were killed and ten were wounded by Palestinian gunmen in a terrorist attack on the yeshiva.In November 2011, an Otniel resident, Rabbi Dan Mertzbach, was killed, and two women were wounded, when an Israel Defense Forces patrol, on alert for suspected militants, fired on their car as they drove to the Cave of the Patriarchs to pray in the early hours of the morning.