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Itongadol.- Two Israelis were killed and a five others injured Friday after a Palestinian fired on their vehicle south of the West Bank city of Hebron.
Just before 3 p.m. on Friday, Magen David Adom received a report of gunshots fired at a car near Otniel Junction in the southern West Bank.
Paramedics arrived to find two Israelis critically injured and a third lightly hurt. They pronounced the two critically hurt dead at the scene.
The two killed were a 40-year-old man and an 18-year old man. Initial reports mistakenly identified the two killed as a couple in their 50s.
The lightly injured victim, a 16-year-old boy, was taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba for treatment. Four others were sent to Soroka for treatment for shock.
According to an initial report, a Palestinian terrorist exited his vehicle and fired on the Israeli car, then fled the scene.
IDF troops were at the scene searching for the suspect.