Palestinian gunmen shoot dead West Bank motorist, two assailants killed - police

Source: Reuters

Palestinian gunmen shoot dead West Bank motorist, two assailants killed - police

By Sinan Abu Mayzer
February 22, 2024 5:44 PM EST Updated 18 hours ago

NEAR MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Three Palestinians opened fire at motorists near an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem on Thursday, killing one person and wounding five, emergency services said.

One woman was seriously wounded, Israel's ambulance service said.

Police said officers and civilians at the site shot dead two gunmen and wounded a third. The assailants were from the area of the West Bank Palestinian city Bethlehem, police said.

At the scene of the shooting near the Israeli Maale Adumim settlement, far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for more roadblocks to be erected in the area and said Israeli safety trumped Palestinian freedom of movement.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that in response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior ministers agreed to convene a planning council to approve some 3,300 homes to be built in settlements, which most countries deem illegal. Israel disputes this view and cites historical and biblical ties to the land it captured in a 1967 war.

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