At least six Israeli soldiers were injured in a Palestinian shooting operation against a bus in the Jordan Valley on Sunday afternoon according to the Hebrew media.
Soon after the shooting the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a manhunt and captured two Palestinian young men. They also raided nearby West Bank areas to look for another suspect.
According to Israeli medical sources at least two Israeli passengers including the driver suffered moderate-to-serious injuries in the shooting incident. They were treated at the scene by medics before being evacuated to Rambam Hospital in Haifa by a helicopter.
Four other passengers were lightly injured by glass shrapnel and treated at the scene before being evacuated to Ha’Emek Hospital in Afula.
The shooting took place on a road in the Jordan Valley near the illegal settlement of Hamra.
Later the Hebrew media affirmed that most of the passengers on the bus were soldiers wearing army uniforms quoting an Israeli military source as saying that all the wounded were soldiers.
According to the IOF Palestinian young men shot at the bus from a truck and forced it to stop and then poured gasoline on the bus in an attempt to set it on fire.
