A 25-year-old man was critically wounded in a suspected terrorist shooting attack at the Beit HaArava Junction between the Dead Sea and Jericho Monday afternoon.

Security forces are searching for the shooter, who fled the scene.

Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah personnel treated the victim at the scene and evacuated him to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Eilon Lubiner said: “Together with additional first responders we performed CPR on a man in his 20s who suffered from gunshot wounds in his upper body. He is now being evacuated to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in critical condition while undergoing continued resuscitation efforts.”

Should the shooting be declared a terrorist attack, it would be the second terrorist shooting attack in Samaria in as many days.