Dura: West Bank: 26 September, 2002 (IAP News)

Israeli soldiers rampaging in the town of Dura, 13 kilometers south-west of Hebron, on Thursday fired several shots at a clearly-painted school bus packed with children.

No injuries were reported, but the children were reportedly thoroughly terrified.

It was not clear though if the bullets were meant to cause injury and death to the estimated 50 children.

According to the driver, Khaled Sweiti, the soldiers fired several shots at the bus and then stopped him at gun point, terrifying the children some of whom began crying.

“They shot at the bus, this is what they did, its seems they just want to kill people.”

Sweiti reported that one soldier boarded the bus, training his gun at the children and telling him in Arabic that “we will kill all of you.”

Sweiti said the bus was kept stranded for sometime before another soldier signaled to him to proceed.

Israeli soldiers have been rampaging through the town of Dura for the past five days.

On Wednesday, they hoisted the Israeli flag atop the largest mosque in the town and reportedly urinated and defecated inside the Mosque.

The vile behavior infuriated local Palestinians who compared the soldiers with the Nazi Wehrmacht and Gestapo.

Also on Wednesday, Israeli troops dynamited the home of the former mayor of Hebron, Mahmoud Nammoura, whose two sons are detained in an Israeli detention camp on charges of shooting at an Israeli army jeep.

When Nammoura confronted the commanding officer with the illegality and immorality of demolishing the demolition, the officer reportedly told him “I am the law.”