1 killed, 11 wounded in attack on security checkpoint line

(JTA) — At least one Israeli was killed in an early morning shooting attack on the highway leading from the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim to Jerusalem.

Eleven others were wounded in the terror attack Thursday morning, one seriously. The three gunmen were killed at the scene by security forces.

The attack occurred amid Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, and amid an accompanying rise in violence in the West Bank. Hours earlier, a house in northern Israel was hit by a missile fired from Lebanon. Another missile shot by the Houthis in Yemen in Thursday targeted the southern Israe...