A 35-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting near the Israeli settlement of Kochav Yair on Sunday, Israel's emergency services and police said.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz Al Din Al Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics pronounced one man dead at the scene after he suffered gunshot wounds. Five other people were taken to Meir and Beilinson hospitals, including two in serious and three in moderate condition with penetrating wounds.
Israeli media reported the shooting took place at three sites in the area, close to the occupied West Bank security barrier.
Israeli police said officers located the vehicle allegedly used in the attack and shot dead the suspected assailant. Security forces remained in the area and continued searching following the incident.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was closely monitoring developments after holding a security assessment, his office said.
In a statement, Al Qassam Brigades said it was behind the attack, with its military spokesman, Abu Ubaida, praising the shooting he said was carried out by one of the group's fighters from within Israel.
He described the attack, along with a vehicle-ramming attack the previous night, as an act of self-defence and a response to what he called Israeli aggression and settler violence.
In an earlier statement, Hamas described the attack as a response to Israel's military operations in Gaza and its policies in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The Palestinian militant group said attacks such as the one near Kochav Yair and an earlier shooting near the Efrat settlement south of Bethlehem reflected continuing resistance to Israeli actions. Hamas said Israeli measures would not halt what it described as resistance in the West Bank.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right National Security Minister, wrote on X that if a “terrorist is caught alive, he will be executed” under a new death penalty law. “Jewish blood is not in vain. Whoever murders a Jew will see the hanging rope,” he said.
Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby and wounded the child's parents in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. He died at the scene, while his parents sustained gunshot wounds and were in moderate condition.
The Israeli army said a single shot was fired after soldiers “perceived a vehicle accelerating towards them”. It has acknowledged that “uninvolved civilians” were injured and said that the incident was under review.
