Scene
of an earlier bus attack on October 10 where one Israeli woman was
killed.
OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, October 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Five people
were slightly injured Tuesday in a shooting attack on a bus near the
northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, close to the northeastern
frontier with the West Bank, Israeli police said.
Police
spokesman in the region, Yossi Hassan, told Agence France-Presse (AFP)
that the attack was carried out by a gunman near the Beit Hashita
kibbutz, eight kilometers (five miles) northwest of Beit Shean at
11:30 am (0930 GMT).
Police
sealed off the area, on the edge of the Jordan Valley, and were
searching for the attacker. The injured were quickly evacuated to
hospital. Police and army radio said initially the bus was hit by a
bomb blast.
The
Israeli occupation forces earlier on Tuesday, abducted, then released
the top Palestinian Muslim official, Jerusalem mufti Sheikh Ekrima
Sabri, 64, in his Jerusalem home, his son and police said.
A
spokesman for the fatwa authorities in Palestine told IslamOnline that
the Israeli forces forcefully entered Sabri’s house at 8.30 am
(local time), barged into his bedroom and immediately arrested him in
his sleeping clothes.
