At least one person has been killed and other wounded by terrorist gunfire in the Hebron Hills area, between Adurayim and Otniel. Preliminary information from the scene points to a drive-by shooting. All of the victims are civilians. At least one person is in serious condition. Additional information to follow.

As seen in the attached photos, the vehicle flipped over.

The terrorist(s) remains at large as the IDF has shut down the entire area south of Kiryat Arba. The attack occurred about 17 kilometers south of Kiryat Arba to what is called the S. Hebron Hills communities. Authorities report four Israelis were seated in the vehicle targeted, killing one.

It is now reported that as many as three people appear to have been wounded, with some in serious condition. An air force helicopter is touching down in the area for transport to a trauma unit.

The wounded are being transported by military chopper and ambulances to the trauma centers in Soroka Hospital (Beersheva), Shaare Zedek Medical Center (Jerusalem) and Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital (Jerusalem). One victim is reportedly in serious condition, one moderate and the third appears less serious condition.

The following information appears to be confirmed at this time:

All of the wounded are from one family. The parents were seated in the front of the car and were hit by gunfire. The wounded children were in the rear and their injuries appear to be the result of flipping over.

3:38PM IL: MDA reports that paramedics are transporting three victims to the trauma unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem including a woman about 40 in serious condition with penetrating injuries to her upper torso. She is sedated and intubated. The other victims are moderate and light. Paramedics pronounced a male about 40-years-old dead on the scene.

It is reported the gunfire came from a white 5-door KIA with dark windows, occupied by two terrorists. It fled the scene heading southbound.

A manhunt after the vehicle continues as the IDF has sealed down the area of the attack and is out in force along Route 60, the main north south road from Jerusalem to Hebron, S. Hebron Hills and ultimately to Beersheva.

The bullets that pierced the vehicle are 5.56mm, indicating either an M-16 or Karl Gustav assault rifle as the likely weapon. An entire magazine was emptied on the vehicle.

3:58PM IL: Channel 2 News reporting the vehicle used in the attack has been located by the IDF and the manhunt for terrorists continues.

4:01PM IL: MK Yehuda Glick, a resident of Otniel, passed the area of the attack shortly after it occurred. He told Channel 2 News in a pained voice he passed prior to the arrival of the first ambulances and for all he knows, the shooter’s vehicle passed him too. “Very difficult. Once again the murder of Jews! Once again the murder of neighbors! Once again Jewish blood is spilled. We are people of peace and yearn for peace. Once again we see tragedy”.

He explains that he left the area immediately since he is not trained to assist and he understood ambulances were beginning to arrive and he did not want to interfere with arriving EMS and IDF personnel.

4:06PM IL: The mora dasra of Otniel, Rabbi Re’em HaKohen Shlita, has called the community to gather in the main shul at 4:30pm to be mispallel for the wounded, with the wife fighting for her life.

The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Chava Rochel bat Ayelet HaShachar bsoch sha’ar cholei yisrael.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photos: Media Resource Group -Yosh Fire Rescue)