At least three Israeli settlers have been killed in a retaliatory shooting operation in the northern part of the West Bank, as tensions have flared up in the occupied territory since the beginning of the Tel Aviv regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Press TV reported.
Eli Bin, head of the Israeli Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service, said six more people were injured in the attack near al-Funduq village, located east of Qalqilya.
The Israeli military announced in a statement that troops are searching for the perpetrators of the operation, with roadblocks set up in the vicinity of the attack and a number of villages surrounded on Monday.
The army said gunmen opened fire at a bus and a number of vehicles. The attack was carried out near the illegal Kedumim settlement.
Since Israel unleashed a war on the besieged Gaza Strip in early October 2023, casualties have been rising in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily Israeli raids into villages and cities in the occupied territories.
At least 838 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or extremist Jewish settlers since the war began.
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