Shots fired at Israeli bus near West Bank city of Nablus
No injuries reported but vehicle sustains damage; bus also attacked with rocks near settlement of Adam; Hebron military post firebombed
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An Israeli bus traveling near Nablus in the West Bank was shot at on Sunday evening, resulting in damage to the vehicle but no injuries.
The attack occurred on the Hawara highway near the Palestinian village by the same name, just south of Nablus.
The windshield was damaged by the bullets, according to initial reports.
It was not immediately clear if the bus was armored, as many in the West Bank are, or who was traveling in the vehicle.
Security forces were on the scene scouring for the gunman or gunmen, the IDF said in a statement.
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Another bus traveling in the West Bank on a road between the settlement of Adam and the Palestinian village of Hizme came under a hail of stones Sunday evening, causing damage to the windshield of the vehicle.
The bus driver sustained light injuries, according to reports.
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Elsewhere in the West Bank, a firebomb was hurled at a military position in Hebron. There were no injuries and no damage reported in that incident.
These latest incidents came amid an extended dip in the number of security incidents after months of near-daily stabbings, car-rammings, and shootings by Palestinians that claimed the lives of 29 Israelis and four foreign nationals. Some 200 Palestinians have also been killed over the same period, the majority of them while carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians or soldiers, and the rest during clashes with troops, according to the Israeli army.
In February, a Palestinian teen assailant was shot dead after trying to stab soldiers at the Hawara checkpoint. Last December, two soldiers were stabbed at the same site and a third was injured in a car-ramming attack in the area later that same month.
The Times of Israel Community.