IDF: Troops thwarted ‘significant attack’ at West Bank settlement Adora

The IDF confirms a soldier was wounded in last night’s shooting attack at the southern West Bank settlement of Adora.

According to the IDF, a reservist tasked with guarding Adora received an alert of an infiltration into the settlement’s industrial zone, and quickly reached the scene.

“When the soldier arrived to check the alert, he was hit by the terrorists’s gunfire,” the IDF says, adding that he dispatched additional forces to search for the terrorists.

The soldier was moderately hurt and taken to a hospital for further treatment.

The IDF says reservists guarding the settlement and additional troops searched for the assailants, eventually killing all three in the Adora industrial zone.

It says the terrorists were carrying an M16 assault rifle, a number of knives, a pickaxe, and other weapons.

The commander of the Judea Regional Brigade says the troops foiled a “significant attack,” while hailing the quick action of the settlement’s security team that alerted them of the incident, to the reservists who reached the scene and killed the attackers.

“Recently, we have trained our forces and systems a lot for this moment, and in the moment of truth, the terrorists met a powerful, complete, and sharp edge, and this is what will do to anyone who wants to harm us,” says Col. Yishai Rosilio.