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Man, 35, and 9-month pregnant woman struck by gunfire in South Hebron Hills terror attack near Teneh Omarim; car shooting occurred near site of deadly attack that killed four at end of Aug. An Israeli woman was lightly injured in a shooting attack Sunday night in the West Bank just hours before the government-imposed 10 month freeze on settlement construction was scheduled to come to an end.
The attack took place in the South Hebron Hills on Road 60 near the settlement of Teneh Omarim. The woman was shot in the leg while she was driving along the highway in her car.
Sunday’s shooting attack in Hebron took place close to where a deadly shooting earlier this month killed four settlers.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says authorities are searching for the car used in the attack. He says the wounded motorist was able to drive to a hospital in southern Israel for treatment.
In July, security forces arrested members of a Hamas terror cell in connection with the slaying of a veteran police officer Yehoshua “Shuki” Sofer during an ambush on his van in the West Bank in June.
Several bullets struck the vehicle during the June 14 attack also on Route 60 in the South Hebron Hills, piercing windows and claiming the life of F.-Sgt. Yehoshua “Shuki” Sofer, 39.
A week later, an intelligence tip enabled the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the IDF and Judea and Samaria Police to jointly arrest a number of Hamas operatives in their twenties from the village of Dir Zamat. Some had already served prison sentences in Israel for Hamas-related activity.
Yossi Sofer, the slain officer’s father said after his death that “driving here revealed how dangerous the route is,” referring to the road on which the attack took place. “Anything can jump out at you,” he added.
The Shin Bet revealed that several years ago, the arrested operatives had established a terror cell that stockpiled weapons and hid them in nearby hills. Among the weapons found were three Kalashnikov assault rifles that were used in the Route 60 attack.
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