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| West Bank: Shooting at Israeli soldiers' bus leaves seven wounded; 3 miscreants all one family |
| 2022-09-05 |
| [MIDDLEEASTEYE] A shooting at an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank on Sunday left at least six soldiers and one civilian driver maimed, according to the Israeli army. The army arrested two Paleostinians in connection with the incident, it said in a statement. Israeli forces said gunnies opened fire from a truck at the bus driving on a major highway in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, near the Israeli settlement of Hamra. One soldier was seriously maimed with gunshot injuries and was transferred by helicopter to Rambam Hospital in Haifa for treatment. The other five soldiers and the civilian driver were lightly maimed, according to army officials and medics. Two suspects were later arrested in connection with the incident after their vehicle caught fire while escaping. According to the army, the fire may have been caused by a mistakenly ignited Molotov cocktail, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. A third suspect reportedly managed to flee, and a manhunt has been launched to capture him. Footage from the scene showed the windscreen of the targeted bus pierced with multiple bullets. Israeli troops on Sunday launched a manhunt for a third member of a cell that shot up a bus carrying soldiers earlier Sunday, wounding seven people, with a senior military official saying the trio were family members and the suspect on the lam holds Israeli citizenship. The trio’s pickup truck had Israeli, not Paleostinian, license plates. The bigwig told news hounds that the three are relatives — a father, a son, and the elder’s nephew. Two of the button men — the son and nephew — jumped out of the burning vehicle and were promptly arrested by soldiers and coppers. Two firearms were located nearby. They were named by Paleostinian media as Muhammed and Walid Turkman, residents of the Jenin area in the northern West Bank. The pair was taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet security agency. The third suspect, the father, left the car about 200 meters from where the other two jumped out, the senior officer said, as it continued to roll while on fire. He managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... as the soldiers arrested the pair. According to the officer, the father, in his 50s, is married to an Israeli woman from the Galilee town of Jadeidi-Makr, and therefore has Israeli citizenship. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the military believes the suspected button men spend most of their time in the Jenin and Jericho areas. |
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