At least two Israeli settlers killed in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank

26 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least two Israeli settlers have died this Sunday in a shooting attack carried out by at least one armed Palestinian in the north of the West Bank city of Huwara, as announced by the Israeli Army.

According to the first investigations by the military, the Palestinian opened fire at point-blank range at the height of Route 60 that crosses the city against the vehicle in which both civilians, about 20 years old and residents of the nearby settlement of Har Bracha, were traveling. .

The spokesman for the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Hazem Qasam, has described the attack as “a natural reaction to the crimes of the Israeli occupation”, according to a statement collected by the Israeli newspaper ‘Jerusalem Post’.

Israeli investigators have found at least a dozen 9mm shell casings at the crime scene, pointing to the use of a handgun or homemade submachine gun.