Four IDF soldiers were lightly injured on Sunday night after Arab terrorists opened fire on an IDF post near the yishuv of Chalamish in Binyamin with a hunting rifle.

The soldiers received emergency medical aid at the scene and one soldier was evacuated to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer for further treatment.

The IDF launched a manhunt for the suspects, during which they closed off the entrance to the nearby Arab town of Nabi Saleh.

The attack came only several hours after six IDF soldiers and a civilian bus driver were injured in a shooting attack at a bus in the Jordan Valley on Sunday and amid a sharp increase in terror attacks in Yehudah and Shomron in recent days and weeks.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)