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Suspected shooting attack on Israeli bus kills child



A suspected shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank killed a child overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, Israeli emergency services said.

The Israeli military said in a statement that an attacker opened fire on an Israeli civilian bus in the area of the Al Khader Junction, killing an Israeli child and injuring a number of other civilians. It said that the attacker turned himself into security forces following security pursuit.

At least four people were wounded, among them a child, aged around 12, who was critically hurt and died later in a Jerusalem hospital, medics and the hospital said.

Violence in the West Bank was already on the rise before the war in Gaza erupted on October 7 last year and has surged since, with frequent Israeli military raids, violence by Jewish settlers and Palestinian street attacks on Israelis.

Bodies of terror suspects won't be returned from Israel under new bill

Israel’s Knesset approved in a preliminary reading on Wednesday a bill that would stop the bodies of people who died committing acts of terrorism from being returned to their families.

Their bodies would be buried in “a cemetery for enemy casualties", a Knesset statement said.

An “explanatory memorandum” on the bill said it is to address the “growing phenomenon” of support for terrorism at the funerals of attackers. The bill stipulates that the prime minister would have the power to override the law “for special reasons”.

It passed with 40 approvals against eight and follows a series of hardline bills relating to national security and international organisations that operate in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.