Jerusalem Israel’s national ambulance service, Magen David Adom (MDA), said that a gun attack on a car and bus in the village of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday killed three Israelis and injured numerous more.
According to Israeli Army Radio, the IDF has cordoned off all of the adjacent communities in an effort to find the suspects, who it believes have fled to a Palestinian hamlet.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, promised to hold those responsible and those who assisted them accountable.
He wrote on X that no one would be spared.
Palestinian authorities in the West Bank did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Although it denied responsibility, Hamas, the terrorist organization that has controlled the Gaza Strip and is present in the West Bank, hailed the bombings as a valiant reaction to the occupation’s ongoing atrocities, especially the genocide war in Gaza.
Since Hamas militants’ October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern Israel sparked the war in Gaza, violence in the West Bank has been escalating, killing hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis.
Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, stated that he had given the military orders to respond to the attacks with severity and warned that anyone who follows Hamas’s lead in Gaza would suffer severe consequences.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, demanded an urgent cabinet meeting.
According to MDA, seven passengers were injured, including a 63-year-old male bus driver who is in critical condition, while two ladies in their 60s and a man in his 40s were declared deceased at the spot.
Since Israel seized the West Bank in a 1967 conflict, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have made the area their home. Israel contests this, pointing to biblical and historical connections to the territory, but the majority of nations view the settlements as unlawful.
Last month, Palestinian security forces entered the northern West Bank city of Jenin with the stated goal of putting down armed outlaw gangs that have established a stronghold in the city and the nearby refugee camp.
According to Palestinian officials, a 17-year-old was murdered in an Israeli raid in the Askar camp in Nablus, and Israeli soldiers killed a 37-year-old man in a hamlet south of Jenin on Sunday after firing on his house.
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