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A gunman in a car opened fire at three locations in Israel close to the border with the occupied West Bank on Sunday, killing at least one man and wounding several other people, Israeli authorities said. - REUTERS

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00:01Israeli emergency services surveyed the scene after a gunman in a car opened fire in three locations,
00:07close to the boundary with the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
00:10Israeli authorities said the attack left at least one man dead and several wounded.
00:14Police said they killed the suspected gunman following a brief pursuit,
00:18which occurred in and around Kochav Yair, inside Israel and close to the West Bank city of Kalkilia.
00:26One man told Reuters his father was among the injured.
00:33He said his father called him to come down to the gas station where he'd been shot.
00:39The son tried to run but wasn't quick enough in his flip-flops
00:45and couldn't get there before his father was transported by ambulance.
00:48Asked about his father's condition, he said they told him he's okay.
00:56Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised security forces, emergency responders, and police officers
01:01for their response at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
01:04He said Israel was fighting terrorism on all fronts.
01:06Police said the man who was killed by the gunman was a 35-year-old civilian.
01:10The gunman was identified by police as in his 20s and a resident of Taibe,
01:14a nearby Israeli city mainly populated by Arab citizens of Israel.
01:20Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called for a, quote,
01:25unproportional reaction to what he called, quote, nests of terror,
01:29which he said existed in Israeli-Arab cities such as Taibe.
01:32He also called for outlawing an Arab political party and expelling them from parliament.
01:36There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
01:39Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the shootings but did not claim responsibility.
01:43Police said a second suspect was arrested after he, quote, made statements suggesting involvement
01:48in the attack without giving details of his alleged role.
01:51He tried to assault officers with a glass bottle when he was arrested.
01:54He did.
01:55He did.
01:55He did.
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