Three people were killed in a shooting attack near the Palestinian city of Tarqumiyah in the southern West Bank on Sunday morning, the military and medics said.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a police car on Route 35 near the Idhna-Tarqumiyah junction, just east of a checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel, before fleeing the scene.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated three victims in critical condition, including a man in his 30s, a woman in her 30s, and another man in his 50s.

The man and woman in their 30s were declared dead at the scene, MDA said, while the 50-year-old was reported to have died en route to a hospital.

The gunmen were believed to have opened fire from a passing vehicle at the police car, before fleeing the scene on foot.

“Many forces launched a pursuit of the terrorists,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

Israel Police Commissioner Danny Levy headed to the scene of the attack, his spokesman said.

The victims were not immediately named.

The attack came after terrorists on Saturday detonated two car bombs in the southern West Bank’s Gush Etzion settlement bloc, some 15 kilometers (nine miles) northeast of Tarqumiyah. Two soldiers were lightly and one moderately hurt in the explosions.

The attackers, who were killed in the attack, were both from Hebron.

Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, a soldier was killed and three were wounded, including one in serious condition, in a shootout with Hamas gunmen in Jenin on Saturday, amid large-scale IDF operations in the area.

Violence has soared in the West Bank during the war in Gaza sparked on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 29 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank — including in Sunday’s attack. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.