Hamas claims responsibility for West Bank bus shooting

Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades, have claimed responsibility for a shooting near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.

"One of our [fighters] surprised a number of Zionist soldiers inside a bus in Ariel, wounding 9, 3 of them critically," the group said in a statement.

"All the decisions written in the ink of the extremist Zionist government, which target the West Bank, will be paid for with the blood spilled from the bodies of soldiers and settlers in all the governorates of the West Bank, God willing."

The man who carried out the attack was Samer Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, a 46-year-old from the village of Einbus, according to the Qassam Brigades.