{"id":24897,"date":"2018-12-10T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24897"},"modified":"2018-12-10T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:23:54","slug":"six-israeli-settlers-wounded-in-drive-by-shooting-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24897","title":{"rendered":"Six Israeli settlers wounded in drive-by shooting in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"86.9323770492\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least six Jewish settlers have been wounded in a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank, the army said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The settlers were standing by a &#8220;hitch hiking station&#8221; near Ofra settlement, The Jerusalem Post reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">One woman was in critical condition, medical officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shots were fired from a passing Palestinian vehicle towards Israeli civilians who were standing at the bus station,&#8221; the Israeli army said. &#8220;Troops who were present nearby responded by firing towards the suspect vehicle, which fled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces were still searching for the attacker, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue service said a 21-year-old woman was shot in her upper body and is in critical condition. The other wounded included two 16-year-old girls who were lightly hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Ofra is built on lands belonging to the villages of Silwan and Ein Yabroud.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army said the shooting was carried out from &#8220;a passing Palestinian vehicle&#8221; near settlers standing at the nearby junction.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first such attack in the West Bank since November 26 when a Palestinian rammed Israeli soldiers with a car and injured three of them. The assailant in that incident was later killed by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"6.84931506849\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shots were fired at Israeli civilians standing at a bus station from a passing Palestinian vehicle. IDF troops nearby responded by firing towards the vehicle, which fled. IDF troops are currently searching the area. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sQtB5kr2gz\">pic.twitter.com\/sQtB5kr2gz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1071863587440914433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six Jewish settlers have been wounded in a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank, the army said. The settlers were standing by a &#8220;hitch hiking station&#8221; near Ofra settlement, The Jerusalem Post reported. One woman was in critical condition, medical officials said. &#8220;Shots were fired from a passing Palestinian vehicle towards Israeli&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}