'Let's go, ceasefire,' bus shooting terror in difficulty...Israel "Head of Hamas and Iran"

[Anchor]
Three people were killed and seven injured in a shooting attack targeting a bus carrying civilians in Israeli-occupied West Bank.

After Israel pointed Hamas behind it, negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza, which were expected to be concluded, became even more twisted.

Reporter Jeong Yu-shin's report.

[Reporter]
A long police line surrounds the vehicle standing on the road.

On the 6th local time, a bus and two vehicles were shot by gunmen on the national highway in the town of al-Punduq near the northern West Bank.

At that time, three people, including an Israeli woman in her 60s, were killed and seven others were injured on the bus.

[Moses Finch, Israel Police Department Director: Sadly, civilians have been killed. We are conducting a field investigation and tracking down the shooter with the military and intelligence agencies.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to find the shooter to the end and bring him to justice.

Hamas and Iran were blamed for the shooting, but they did not give evidence.

[David Menser, Israeli government spokesman: An attempt to commit more killings and violence against innocent civilians under the direction of Hamas and Iran]

Hamas said it was "responsive to the crimes of the occupiers," but did not claim responsibility.

Negotiations over the release of hostages, which were once close to an agreement and repeated last-minute tug-of-war, have also become more twisted.

Hamas earlier said it had approved a list of 34 Israeli hostages, which Israel denied.

Local media said the known hostage list did not indicate who was alive.

Israel seems to be more enthusiastic about airstrikes than about ceasefire negotiations.

Gaza's health ministry said Israeli forces carried out nearly a hundred airstrikes and shelling over the first weekend of the new year and claimed to have killed more than 180 people.

This is YTN Jeong Yu-shin.