West Bank attack injures 4 Israelis, 1 Palestinian amid persisting revolt

Four Israelis and a Palestinian have been wounded in a gun attack near an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil with the gunman reported shot and martyred by the occupying forces.

According to Press TV, the shooting on Saturday came amid the persisting revolt by native Palestinians in the occupied West bank and just days ahead of the Israeli regime’s fifth election in less than four years, with local news outlets citing Tel Aviv’s army as saying that the unidentified attacker “shot live fire” at the checkpoint in al-Khalil, also home to a community of radical Zionist settlers.

"Soldiers are conducting searches in the area" for additional suspects, the occupying army added, noting that the attacker was shot and martyred at the scene.

A 50-year-old Israeli man was "unconscious with an injury to his upper body," said the Israeli regime's Magen David Adom emergency response service, adding that the rest of the casualties had suffered less severe injuries.

The Palestinian Red Crescent also announced that the Palestinian victim was receiving treatment at a local hospital.

This is while the Israeli regime’s extreme-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose “Religious Zionism” alliance is vying for major gains in Tuesday’s polls, claimed in a Twitter post that his residence was the target of the shooting attack.

An army spokesperson told AFP that an Israeli guard had shot the attacker dead at the scene.

The reported attack came amid heavily intensified Israeli raids throughout the West Bank in search of alleged Palestinian gunmen responsible for a spate of deadly attacks on Israeli forces by Palestinian resistance forces – which began in March.

More than 100 Palestinians have so far been martyred during the Israeli regime’s brutal crackdown on West Bank’s native residents.

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