An Israeli man was lightly wounded by shattered glass on Tuesday morning when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on vehicles near the community of Avnei Hefetz, southeast of Tulkarem in Samaria.
The victim was evacuated to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.
A female driver whose vehicle was also attacked was treated at the scene for shock.
According to a preliminary report, a terrorist exited a car with Palestinian Authority license plates and began firing at oncoming traffic before returning to his vehicle and driving away.
The Israel Defense Forces launched a manhunt for the perpetrators.
בהמשך לדיווח הראשוני, מחבל פתח בירי לעבר רכבים ישראליים שנסעו בצומת מאיה סמוך ליישוב אבני חפץ שבחטיבת מנשה. נגרם נזק לשני רכבים. בנוסף, אזרח ישראלי נפצע כתוצאה מפגיעת רסיסי זכוכית ופונה לקבלת טיפול רפואי בבית חולים. נמצאו תרמילים במרחב.
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כוחות צה"ל פתחו בסריקות אחר החשודים
Last week, Israeli forces thwarted a Palestinian terrorist attack at the Gitai Avisar Junction near the city of Ariel in Samaria. According to the IDF, a soldier shot and “neutralized” the terrorist, who attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack before exiting his vehicle armed with a knife.
Earlier that week, a 28-year-old Israeli man was moderately wounded in a shooting attack in the Binyamin region of Samaria. The victim was among a group of runners participating in an event commemorating fallen soldiers on Memorial Day. He was shot in the hand from a passing car.
A day earlier, five Israelis were wounded when a terrorist drove his vehicle into a crowd near the busy Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
The perpetrator was identified as Hatem Nejima, a 39-year-old Arab Israeli resident of Beit Safafa in eastern Jerusalem. He was shot and killed by a civilian passerby.
