New shootings in the West Bank.
At least one person was killed and eight others were shot and injured in an attack described as “terrorist” by Israeli police this Thursday in Maale Adumim (West Bank), Israeli emergency services said.
Three armed men opened fire with automatic weapons this Thursday morning on several vehicles, near a settlement in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem.
The injuries are to varying degrees, Israeli police said.
The incident took place near the settlement of Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, police said in a statement, adding that the attackers arrived in a vehicle.
“The three terrorists (…) got out of their vehicle and began firing automatic weapons at vehicles that were in a traffic jam on the road towards Jerusalem,” according to the statement.
“Two terrorists were neutralized on the spot.
Searches carried out at the scene made it possible to locate another terrorist who was trying to escape and who was also neutralized,” added the police.
A few days after another attack
Thursday's attack comes days after two people were shot and killed in southern Israel, near the town of Kiryat Malakhi.
Violence was already on the rise in the West Bank and has only intensified since the start of the Gaza war on October 7 between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
The West Bank has been the scene of frequent attacks perpetrated by Palestinians against Israelis, and almost daily raids by the Israeli army, often deadly.
Israeli troops and settlers have killed at least 400 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah.
Israel captured the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which was later annexed, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. The Palestinians claim this territory as the heart of their future independent state.
The war in Gaza was launched by Israel after the unprecedented attack by Hamas on October 7 on Israeli territory, which left around 1,160 dead in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP report carried out in from official Israeli data.
In the Gaza Strip, 29,313 people were killed, according to the Hamas health ministry.