Hamas attacker opens fire at Israeli bus in West Bank, injuring at least 8: report

An alleged gunman from the Palestinian violent radical Hamas opened occurrence Friday astatine an Israeli autobus successful the West Bank, injuring 8 people, including 4 soldiers, reports say. 

The incidental adjacent the colony of Ariel ended erstwhile the attacker, identified by Hamas arsenic 46-year-old Samer Hussein, was killed by Israeli troops. 

"As a effect of the shooting attack, 4 IDF soldiers were lightly injured and were evacuated to a infirmary to person aesculapian treatment," the Israel Defense Forces said successful a statement, adding that "an equipped violent opened occurrence astatine an Israeli autobus successful Gitti Avisar [Junction], causing injuries and damage." 

Images and video taken from the country showed galore slug holes successful the beforehand windshield of the autobus and a heavy damaged car connected the broadside of the road. 

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Bullet holes are seen successful the windshield of an Israeli autobus that was fired astatine Friday adjacent the colony of Ariel successful the West Bank. (Nadav Goldstein/TPS-IL)

"IDF soldiers eliminated the violent astatine the scene," the Israeli subject said. 

Hamas’s equipped wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said the assailant belonged to its ranks, according to Reuters. 

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Israeli information forces basal adjacent to an ambulance astatine the country of a shooting onslaught adjacent the Jewish colony of Ariel, successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank, connected Friday, Nov. 29. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)

Elsewhere, Friday, 2 girls and a pistillate were crushed to decease arsenic a assemblage of Palestinians pushed to get breadstuff astatine a bakery successful the Gaza Strip. 

The bodies of 2 girls aged 13 and 17 and the 50-year-old pistillate were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir al-Balah successful cardinal Gaza, wherever a doc confirmed that they died from suffocation owed to crowding astatine the al-Banna bakery, according to The Associated Press. 

Food prices reportedly person been soaring successful the Gaza Strip following a caller attack connected astir 100 U.N. assistance trucks that crossed implicit from Israel. 

At slightest 8 radical were wounded successful the shooting adjacent Ariel, including 4 IDF troops. (Nadav Goldstein/TPS-IL)

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A pistillate successful the metropolis of Deir al-Balah told The Associated Press past week that the terms of flour has present climbed to much than $100 a bag, if it tin adjacent beryllium found. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.