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Three Israeli hikers hurt in shooting attack near Ramallah
By Jonathan Lis, Amos Harel and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Terrorism, Israel, West Bank

Three Israeli hikers were wounded on Friday, one seriously and two lightly, in a drive-by shooting in Zarka valley near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Unknown assailants in a passing vehicle apparently opened fire at the group of hikers, hitting three of them.

Security and rescue personnel arrived at the scene and located the victims, who were hiding in the area after the attack.
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An initial report from the Magen David Adom emergency medical staff on the scene indicated that one of the victims had been shot in the back and another had sustained gunshots to the stomach. One of the hikers was in serious condition and two others sustained minor wounds. According to paramedics, the victims were fully conscious.

Additional hikers that were with the victims suffered from dehydration as they waited for rescue teams in hiding.

Due to difficult terrain conditions which limited vehicle access, rescue teams initially had trouble transporting the hikers into the helicopter that was summoned to evacuate them from the area. Ultimately, the wounded hikers were flown to Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv.

The Israel Defense Forces later said that the hikers did not properly coordinate their outing with the authorities, as is required when hiking in the West Bank.

In April, two Israeli civilians were killed in another shooting attack in the region, when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire from a short range at Israeli guards securing the Nitzanei Oz industrial center, west of Tulkarm, which employs hundreds of Palestinian workers.

Some six months ago, two IDF soldiers were killed in a shooting attack while hiking in a stream near the West Bank city of Hebron. The two soldiers, both resident of Kiryat Arba, were hiking with a young woman. During their hike, four terrorists emerged and opened fire toward the group. The soldiers, who were both carrying their army-issued weapon, returned fire. One of the terrorists was killed, and another was badly wounded in the exchange. The two soldiers were killed, while the girl managed to flee. The terrorists fled the scene in a jeep.

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