Several people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike near Jenin in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. It said that a vehicle with several young men had been fired upon.

Israeli strikes killed at least four Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin, as raids in the Palestinian city occur in parallel with the war in Gaza.

A Palestinian opened fire on an Israeli bus near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank on Friday, wounding at least eight people before he was killed by Israeli troops, the Israeli military said.

The decision to fire was not made out of a imminent threat of a terrorist attack, but rather out of a window of opportunity to eliminate terrorists under surveillance

Israel’s new defense minister has said security forces would no longer apply administrative detention orders to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, and thus only Palestinian suspects can be held indefinitely without trial.

Four people were injured by gunfire, three of them seriously, in Israel Friday after a Hamas gunman started shooting at a bus in the occupied West Bank city of Ariel, according to authorities.

Hamas claiming responsibility for attack near Ariel that left eight injured, including four Israeli soldiers. (Credit: APTN)

A shooting at a bus near an Israeli settlement injured at least eight people on Friday in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli rescue service said.

Several people have been injured after a gunman opened fire on a bus near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Three people were seriously injured by gunfire and another person suffered moderate injuries,