Gunmen opened fire on 3 Israelis near the settlement of Homesh, west of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, Thursday evening, killing one of them and wounding the others.

The Israeli ambulance said that it provided first aid at the scene of the accident to a person who was seriously wounded by bullets, and to two other wounded people who maintained consciousness.

He stated that one of the wounded died on his way to the hospital, at a time when he described the others' wounds as moderate.

A spokesman for the occupation forces had announced that their car was fired at from a speeding car that fled, and it is suspected that it was carrying two people.

In the meantime, Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli occupation forces sent in reinforcements, closed the entire area, and launched a wide combing campaign.