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Military ambulance damaged in shooting attack in southern West Bank
2023-05-31
[IsraelTimes] IDF says troops returned fire at source of shooting on Route 60 highway, near Kiryat Arba settlement

A military ambulance was targeted in a shooting attack near the southern West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba late Monday night, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The IDF said the ambulance and other troops were conducting routine security operations on the Route 60 highway near Hebron.

"IDF soldiers responded with live fire toward the source of the shooting," the military said.

The ambulance was damaged after being hit by at least two bullets.

No soldiers were hurt in the attack, the IDF said.

The IDF said troops were scanning the area for suspects.

The attack came a day after Paleostinian bandidos turbans shot up a settlement in the northern West Bank and a town in Israel bordering the security barrier, causing slight damage. The IDF said it had launched a manhunt for the suspects behind the shooting attack. A local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group grabbed credit.
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