Three people have been killed and seven wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack on a bus and other vehicles in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and paramedics say.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service identified the dead as two women in their 60s and a man in his 40s. The driver of the bus was seriously wounded.
The Israeli military said “terrorists” opened fire at the vehicles near the village of al-Funduq, located on Highway 55, and then fled the scene.
Israeli media cited a military official as saying the attackers were two Palestinians and that security forces were pursuing them, setting up roadblocks and encircling several towns in the area.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring to justice what he called the “despicable murderers” along with anyone who helped them.
“No-one will be spared,” he wrote on X.
There was no immediate claim from Palestinian armed groups, although Hamas praised the attack as a “heroic response against [Israel’s] continued crimes”, including the war in Gaza.
There has been a surge in violence in the West Bank since the start of the war, which was triggered by Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
