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Shooting Attack at West Bank Car Wash Kills 2 Israelis

Israeli security stand guard at a checkpoint following a reported attack in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank, on August 19, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
Israeli security stand guard at a checkpoint following a reported attack in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank, on August 19, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
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Shooting Attack at West Bank Car Wash Kills 2 Israelis

Israeli security stand guard at a checkpoint following a reported attack in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank, on August 19, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
Israeli security stand guard at a checkpoint following a reported attack in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank, on August 19, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Two Israelis were killed in a suspected Palestinian shooting attack on a car wash in a volatile stretch of the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

The Israeli military said it was searching for suspects and setting up roadblocks near the town of Hawara, a flashpoint area in the northern West Bank, which has seen repeated shooting attacks as well as a rampage by Jewish West Bank settlers who torched Palestinian property.

The shooting attack came after Palestinian official media said a 19-year-old Palestinian died of his wounds following an Israeli military raid into the West Bank on Wednesday.

Israeli paramedics said Saturday that when they arrived at the scene, two Israeli males, aged 60 and 29, were found unconscious at the car wash in Hawara with gunshot wounds.

Videos circulating online from the car wash showed Israeli soldiers walking across a large pool of blood to help move two bodies on stretchers to awaiting ambulances.

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Three Lebanese Civil Defense Members Killed by Israeli Strike, Hezbollah Retaliates

Smoke rises and a flare is deployed in the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain after being hit by Israeli shelling on September 7, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Smoke rises and a flare is deployed in the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain after being hit by Israeli shelling on September 7, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
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Three Lebanese Civil Defense Members Killed by Israeli Strike, Hezbollah Retaliates

Smoke rises and a flare is deployed in the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain after being hit by Israeli shelling on September 7, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Smoke rises and a flare is deployed in the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain after being hit by Israeli shelling on September 7, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Three Lebanese paramedics were killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Lebanon's health ministry said on Saturday.

"Israeli forces targeted a team from the Lebanese Civil Defense as they responded to fires sparked by recent Israeli airstrikes," a ministry statement said, specifying that the strike hit a fire truck.

The ministry condemned the attack as a "blatant strike" on an official Lebanese state apparatus, marking the second such attack on an emergency team in less than 12 hours.

Hezbollah issued a statement late on Saturday, saying they launched a "squadron of missiles" in response to the attack, targeting the headquarters of Israel's 91st Division, which is responsible for its northern border, "hitting offices and soldiers with precision."

Israel's military said some 45 rockets were fired at northern Israel in several barrages, many targeting the Mount Meron area but falling in open areas. Several rockets fell in Shlomi and around the city of Safed. There were no injuries. The military later said its jets struck Hezbollah military infrastructure and a rocket launcher in the area of Qabrikha in southern Lebanon.