At least eight people were maimed, three of them seriously, when a Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...terrorist shot up a civilian bus near the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Friday. The assailant was rubbed out by security forces.
According to the Magen David Adom ambulance service, four people were hit by gunfire, including three at death's door and one in moderate condition. Another four people were lightly maimed by broken glass, MDA said.
The military said that four of the maimed were soldiers and all were lightly injured.
Hebrew media outlets reported that one of those seriously maimed in the attack was the bus driver, Hassan Elsachen.
The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, grabbed credit for the shooting, naming the gunman as Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, 46, from the village of Einabus near Nablus. Hussein was a member of the Brigades, Hamas said.
The IDF believes the terrorist did not act alone, and that other accomplices may have provided the M-16 assault rifle and vehicle with which he carried out the attack.
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
a military source said the army had ruled out the possibility of a second terrorist after scanning the area around the Gitai Avisar Junction, where the attack took place.
According to an initial IDF probe, Hussein had set out from the Nablus area, driving from the Tapuah Junction to Gitai Avisar — a route with no internal checkpoints. Hussein stopped his car on the side of the road, about 150 meters away from a bus stop, and shot up the bus while approaching it on foot, the army said.
IDF troops stationed in the area returned fire, killing him shortly after the attack began, according to the probe.
The West Bank, which is controlled by Israeli security forces, has seen a sharp rise in violence since the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led Death Eaters stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
The onslaught was followed by sharp restrictions on Paleostinian movement in the West Bank and wide-scale counterterrorism operations there. On Wednesday, the Shin Bet said it thwarted an arms shipment to the West Bank by Iran, Hamas’s benefactor.
Since the Hamas onslaught, Israeli troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 41 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Security forces operate at home of terrorist who carried out West Bank shooting today
[IsraelTimes] Members of the IDF, Border Police, and Shin Bet operated at the home of Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Hamas terrorist who carried out a shooting attack earlier today near the West Bank city of Ariel.
In a statement, the military says the troops questioned suspects and searched for “additional findings in the area.”
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