One dead in several shootings near West Bank

Assailants launched several shooting attacks close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring five others, according to Israel’s rescue services.

Israeli police said they had killed one attacker, while large cohorts of soldiers carried out searches in the area, on the ground and by air, for additional assailants.

The number of places where people were shot initially raised concerns there could be multiple, co-ordinated attackers.

Israeli rescue services Magen David Adom said it received the first reports of a shooting at a fuel station near the town of Kokhav Yair, located on the Israeli side of the boundary with the West Bank, at around 10.30am.

Several other shooting reports were received soon afterwards, in the towns of Tsur Natan, Tsur Yitzhak, and close to the Israeli settlement of Sal’it, located inside the West Bank.

Police identified the attacker they killed as a Palestinian citizen of Israel from the nearby Arab town of Taybeh.

Residents in the area were instructed to stay at home and children were kept in lockdown at school, according to the regional council head Oshrit Gani Gonen.