Jerusalem (EFE) They were also moderately injured.
The attacker was detained in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, where Israeli troops carried out raids that left ten injured by tear gas inhalation, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.
The identity of the attacker has not been revealed nor has any Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Shots fired from a vehicle
The Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) was the first to report the attack, as its paramedics went to the scene to treat the injured: a 35-year-old man with serious injuries but conscious due to gunshot wounds, and their two daughters, ages 14 and 9, moderately wounded by shrapnel.
Shortly after, MDA transferred the injured, the father and the two girls, to the Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem.
“The shots came from a vehicle that was passing through the Tekoa crossing. As a result of the shooting, one civilian was injured and two other civilians were injured by shrapnel,” a military spokesman clarified when the attack occurred.
In recent weeks, Palestinian attacks against Israeli settlements or military posts in the area have increased, many of them claimed by Hamas, as a result of the Israeli army launching a large-scale military operation, by land and air, over the city. Jenin, north of the West Bank, a historic stronghold of the Palestinian movement and which Israel considers the largest “focus of terrorism” in the area.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its biggest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05) and this 2023, 161 Palestinians have already died in the framework of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most of them militants in armed clashes with Israeli troops and attackers, but also civilians, including 27 minors.
In parallel, the area has seen the proliferation of new Palestinian armed groups, which carry out more and more attacks and have left 27 dead on the Israeli side, most of them settlers, five of them minors, and 3 uniformed men.
Netanyahu is discharged after spending a day hospitalized for dehydration
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was released today after being hospitalized the day before in an emergency after suffering dehydration from the high summer temperatures.
“The prime minister underwent a series of comprehensive and routine examinations while fully conscious, including an electrical test of the heart, which came back completely normal,” Sheba Hospital reported today, confirming the initial diagnosis that the cause of his death was dehydration.