QALQILYA, (PIC)
At least two Jewish settlers were injured on Sunday morning in a Palestinian shooting operation near the town of Nabi Ilyas in the north of the occupied West Bank.
According to the Hebrew media, two Israelis were wounded, one of them a female soldier who was seriously hurt, in a shooting attack on a West Bank highway.
The shooting incident happened on Route 55 between the Palestinian towns of Azzun and Nabi Ilyas in eastern Qalqilya. A bus and another car came under fire by a Palestinian gunman, The Times of Israeli website said.
A 19-year-old woman on the bus was seriously wounded, Israeli medical sources reported. A man in his 50s was also hurt by gunfire while driving in the same area.
The woman was taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where she was listed in a life-threatening condition. She was later identified as an Israel army soldier.
The man, who is in moderate condition, was taken to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
Following the shooting, a large number of Israeli troops have been dispatched to the area to search for the shooter.
The Israeli army and police also closed the road in both directions in the area of the incident and laid siege to nearby towns.
