Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday to find Palestinian gunmen behind a West Bank attack, after a baby delivered prematurely following the shooting died.
The baby's mother was one of seven people wounded in the drive-by shooting at a bus stop near the Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank late Sunday.
She was 30-weeks pregnant and the baby was delivered by caesarean section at a Jerusalem hospital.
"We lost a few hours ago an newborn baby, four days old," Netanyahu said in an address to foreign media.
"We will find the killers, we haven't stopped searching. We will find them and bring them to justice," he said, as the army and security services continued their search.
The 21-year-old mother was reported as stable following the attack, but the Shaare Zedek hospital said Monday that the baby had taken a turn for the worse.
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The child died "despite the medical efforts of the premature baby unit to save him," the hospital said on Wednesday.
The others wounded in the attack were not in life-threatening condition.
The Islamist Hamas movement, which runs the Gaza Strip, praised the shooting, saying in a statement that it proved "resistance" was still alive in the West Bank.
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Palestinian attacks against Israelis occur sporadically in the West Bank.
Sunday's shooting north of Jerusalem was the most serious attack in the West Bank since October 7, when Palestinian Ashraf Naalwa shot two Israelis dead in an industrial zone for a nearby settlement.
