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.

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.

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)

West Bank - [Note: no sound] Earlier today (Friday), an armed terrorist opened fire at an Israeli bus in Gitti Avisar, causing injuries and damage. IDF soldiers eliminated the terrorist at the scene.

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.Violence in the West Bank has surged since the start of the Gaza war sparked by Hamas's attack on southern Israel on October 7,