No one hurt as gunfire hits house in West Bank settlement

Shots were fired at a house in the West Bank settlement of Beit El on Sunday night, causing damage but no injuries.

Security forces were investigating the incident and searching the area. A bullet penetrated the window of a residential home, according to initial reports. No injuries were reported.

The gunfire may have come from the nearby Palestinian village of Jalazoun, authorities said.

It was not immediately clear if the house was hit by a stray bullet, or if the gunfire was a terror attack that targeted the home.

The gunfire followed three separate attempted stabbing attacks Sunday.

Earlier in the evening, Border Police officers thwarted an attempted stabbing near the Tomb of the Patriarchs shrine in the West Bank city of Hebron, police said. The alleged assailant, a Palestinian girl initially identified as 14 years old, was shot and critically wounded.

In the afternoon, a Palestinian man was shot and killed after trying to stab officers at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem.

And in another incident Sunday, two Palestinian teens near Jenin in the northern West Bank were shot and killed by security forces who were responding to reports of stone throwers in the area.

On January 31, three Israeli soldiers were wounded when a member of the Palestinian Authority security forces opened fire at an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint near Beit El in the West Bank. He was shot dead by forces at the scene.