Five people injured in shooting attack near illegal Israeli settlement: Report
Israeli media are reporting a shooting attack on a bus near the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
The attack targeted a bus at the Giti Avisar intersection, injuring at least five people, The Times of Israel reported.
The suspected attacker has been “neutralised”, according to a military statement.
Israeli army says one attacker ‘neutralised’, another at large after bus shooting: Report
Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows a man, apparently dead, lying on the side of an Israeli highway after Israel’s military announced it had “neutralised” an attacker who shot at a bus there.
Numerous Israeli ambulances and soldiers are seen at the site of the reported attack.
The military is pursuing a second man who also took part in the attack, according to a military source quoted by The Times of Israel.
Israeli military rules out possibility of second suspect in bus shooting: Report
Israeli Army Radio is now reporting there is no second suspect and that the attack was carried out by just one person. The man who carried out the attack was armed with an automatic weapon, and wore a vest on his body, the outlet said.
Israeli medics work at scene of shooting near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank
Hamas’s military wing claims responsibility for West Bank bus shooting
The Qassam Brigades has declared responsibility for a shooting near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, which we have been reporting on.
“One of our [fighters] surprised a number of Zionist soldiers inside a bus in Ariel, wounding 9, 3 of them critically,” Hamas’s military wing said in a statement.
“All the decisions written in the ink of the extremist Zionist government, which target the West Bank, will be paid for with the blood spilled from the bodies of soldiers and settlers in all the governorates of the West Bank, God willing,” it added.
The group identified the man who carried out the attack as Samer Muhammad Ahmad Hussein – a 46-year-old man from the village of Einbus, south of Nablus.
Hamas attacker fired 3 magazines into bus carrying Israeli troops
More details have emerged about the attack that wounded at least nine Israeli soldiers and civilians in the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
Willem Marx, a journalist based in Ramallah, reports the attacker was a member of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing. The group identified him as Sameer Hussein, 46, and said he was from a village just south of Nablus.
“He travelled there this afternoon and used a M16 assault rifle, according to Israeli media citing military sources. He emptied three magazines of ammunition inside the bus before return fire ended up killing him,” Marx told Al Jazeera.
Israel’s medical service said four people suffered gunshot wounds, with three in serious condition, and four others were hurt by flying glass.
The scene of the shooting attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel