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Drive-By Shooting at Bus Stop Kills 3 Israelis in West Bank
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"We will continue to recognize this as occupation," said Mohammed Hourani, a Fatah member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. "And our right to resist it."
In the bus stop attack at around 4 p.m., military officials said, a blue Subaru slowed as it approached the Gush Etzion junction about 10 miles southwest of Jerusalem. At that hour, the stop is filled with hitchhikers heading home from Jerusalem to a bloc of settlements stretching south to Hebron. Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 Middle East war, and the land is envisioned as part of a future Palestinian state.
Military officials said it was unclear how many were in the car. Witnesses described two bursts of rifle fire coming from it as it slowed near the stop, blockaded with concrete blocks during the most recent Palestinian uprising to protect those waiting from hit-and-run drivers. Three Israelis died at the scene, hospital officials said.
Not long after, a gunman traveling in a car near the settlement of Eli north of Ramallah fired on an Israeli standing by the roadside. Hospital workers said the Israeli, identified as a 14-year-old boy, was seriously injured.
Israeli military officials said Sunday that no military checkpoints had been removed from the West Bank in the past week. But leaders of Israel's main settler movement called on Sharon to close West Bank routes to Palestinian traffic.
Researcher Samuel Sokol contributed to this report.
