JERUSALEM — Three Israelis were killed on Monday and several injured in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the town of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel’s national ambulance service Magen David Adom (MDA) said.
Israeli Army Radio said the military had imposed a cordon around all villages in the area to search for the suspects, who it believes fled to a nearby Palestinian village.
There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian authorities in the West Bank.
Violence in the West Bank has been spiraling, with hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis killed since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel triggered the war in Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have settled in the West Bank since Israel captured the territory in a 1967 war.
Persons:
Magen David Adom, Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ”, Israel Katz, Israel’s, Bezalel Smotrich
Organizations:
West Bank, Israeli Army Radio, Hamas, Gaza, MDA
Locations:
JERUSALEM, Kedumim, Palestinian, Israeli, Gaza, ”, Israel, Jenin, West, Nablus