Two Israeli Women Killed In Deadly West Bank Shooting Attack

Two Israeli women were killed and another was critically injured in a gun attack in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli soldiers and medics.

The military stated that its troops had "begun a chase of the terrorists." According to the IDF, the event was initially reported as a collision between an Israeli vehicle and a Palestinian vehicle, but when forces arrived, they discovered many bullet holes in the Israeli vehicle.

West Bank Shooting Attack

The injured woman was airlifted to a hospital for treatment. Kobi Shabtai, the commissioner of the Israel Police, has ordered that all Israelis with firearms licenses begin carrying their weapons. He said that this is a horrible incident that reminds us how relevant terrorist danger in all of its forms is. Since the beginning of the year, there has been an increase in violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers have killed around 90 Palestinians, both militants and civilians. If the perpetrators of Friday's shooting are identified as Palestinians, then 17 Israelis and a Ukrainian -- all civilians except an Israeli paramilitary police officer -- have been slain in Palestinian attacks.

The attack on Friday comes after the Israeli military announced nighttime air attacks on sites associated with the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The attacks were launched in reaction to a barrage of more than 30 rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Thursday, which the IDF blamed on Hamas. Following the start of the raids, Hamas-ruled Gaza fired 40 additional missiles into Israel.

The barrage from Lebanon came after two nights of Israeli police incursions on the al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, which sparked deadly clashes with Palestinians inside and sparked outrage throughout the region.

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