RAMALLAH (Dispatches) -- A shooting in the occupied West Bank killed three Zionist settlers, and wounded eight others, with one of the injured in critical condition.
Attackers on Monday morning targeted a bus and two cars near the village of Al-Funduq, east of Qalqilya, where settlers often transit through to the illegal settlements of Kedumim, Shavei Shomron, and others.
Zionist officials said two Palestinians were responsible for the shooting with the fate of the attackers unknown.
According to Israel’s emergency services, Magen David Adom, a bus driver was left seriously wounded while two other Israelis were in moderate condition and five more had mild injuries.
Israel’s extremist finance minister, Bezalel compared the operation to the events in Gaza. 
Smotrich added that the occupied West Bank must end up looking like north Gaza’s Jabalia, which has been decimated following Israel’s implementation of the “General’s Plan” to ethnically cleanse the area.
The Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has turned into a “ghost town” with not a single building left unscathed, according to Israel’s Maariv newspaper. 
Any remaining structures are riddled with bullet holes or scarred by explosive shells, a grim testament to the relentless Israeli onslaught.
The situation has been exacerbated by heavy rains, which have turned the rubble into a mud-filled swamp, making the already dire conditions even more unbearable. 
Meanwhile, Israel’s far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that Zionists should realize that there are no commonalities with Palestinians. 
“Whoever strives for an end to the war in Gaza will receive a war in Judea and Samaria,” he said in a post on X, using a fictitious name for the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian factions called for escalating resistance operations in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, Hamas hailed the operation as a heroic response to the ongoing crimes and war of extermination committed by the (Israeli) occupation against our people in Gaza, the displacement plans in the West Bank, and the settler aggression on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and holy sites.
“This operation is a message to the extremist Israeli regime and its ministers that there is a free and rebellious nation that will not abandon its rights and that the resistance will continue until the occupation is removed from all of our lands,” it added.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called the operation a “powerful message” to the Israeli occupation.
It called for escalating resistance operations in the West Bank “to confuse the occupation’s calculations and weaken its security system.”
The Popular Resistance Committees termed the operation “a natural response” to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the Judaisation and annexation plans in the West Bank.
Tension has been running high across the occupied West Bank due to Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has martyred more than 45,800 people, mostly women and children, since October 7, 2023.
At least 835 Palestinians have also been martyred and nearly 6,700 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian figures.
In November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.