Sun 04 September 2022:
At least five Israeli soldiers and the bus driver were injured in the shooting that took place on Sunday within the occupied West Bank, according to military officials and .medics
The incident occurred not far from Jenin and Nablus, according to Israeli authorities, and two suspected gunmen were apprehended as they attempted to flee.
Witnesses said Palestinians in a car overtook the bus, spraying it with bullets and, when it came to a halt, tried to torch it. Israeli TV aired footage of a car ablaze after, it said, a fire bomb went off inside.
There was no immediate Palestinian claim of responsibility though.
A spokesman for Hamas praised the attack as “proof that all attempts by the Occupation (Israel) to stop the escalating resistance operations in the West Bank have failed”.
The road, where the incident occurred, is dotted with Israeli settlements and Palestinian villages and towns.
Israel occupies the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and has built more than 200 settlements with more than half a million settlers. Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands are considered illegal under international law. The settler expansion is also an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, who seek the territory to be part of their future state.
Matti Carmi, from the Magen David Adom emergency medical services, said “two gunshots victims” were treated outside the bus. The two were conscious and were airlifted to hospital in the Israeli coastal city of Haifa.
Three more people were injured by glass pieces and were transferred by car to a different hospital in northern Israel, according to MDA.
A picture of the vehicle’s windscreen covered in gunshot holes was provided by a union that represents bus drivers.
The event occurs just days after two Palestinian men were killed by the Israeli army in separate raids in the West Bank, one in the Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood south of Ramallah and al-Bireh and the other in the al-Ain refugee camp in Nablus.
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