Several people have been injured after a gunman opened fire on a bus near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Three people were seriously injured by gunfire and another person suffered moderate injuries,

Four people were injured by gunfire, three of them seriously, in Israel Friday after a Hamas gunman started shooting at a bus in the occupied West Bank city of Ariel, according to authorities.

The terrorist was named as 46-year-old Samer Hussein, 46, a father of five from a Palestinian village south of Nablus

The military wing of the Hamas terror group takes responsibility for the shooting attack near the West Bank city of Ariel earlier today, in which at least eight people were wounded including three seriously.

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Hamas claiming responsibility for attack near Ariel that left eight injured, including four Israeli soldiers. (Credit: APTN)