![]() "Revolutionaries in the West Bank are striking everywhere, and specifically where (Israel) does not expect it," said Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem, describing the shooting as a "reaction to the crimes of the occupation in the Jenin camp." The Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the attack as a response to Monday's deadly military raid. Palestinian health officials identified the man as 24-year-old Khaled Sabah. The second assailant fled the gas station in a stolen Toyota.Īfter an hourslong manhunt, Israeli security forces caught him in the West Bank town of Tubas, shooting and killing him when he tried to run out of his car. Hamas identified him as Mohannad Shehada. His condition was not immediately confirmed but medics were later seen carrying him away in a body bag. They first burst into a hummus restaurant, shooting and killing three people, the army said, before heading out to the gas station and killing another person who was pumping gas into his car.Ī civilian bystander shot one of the assailants repeatedly until he collapsed to the ground, unmoving. The men went on a rampage at a gas station next to the Israeli settlement of Eli, the Israeli military said, north of the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Daniel Hagari said the two Hamas-affiliated gunmen had driven to the shooting scene from the Palestinian village of Urif in the northern West Bank. He said there were no immediate reports of injuries. Some settlers opened fire toward Palestinians who ventured out of their homes to throw stones at them, he added. ![]() Hawara was the scene of a deadly rampage earlier this year in which Israeli settlers set dozens of homes and cars on fire and left one Palestinian dead after a Palestinian militant attack killed two Israeli brothers.Ī gang of settlers on Tuesday set fire to a Palestinian's car, said Nablus official Ghassan Daghlas, and tried to burn two Palestinian homes. Later on Tuesday, a few carloads of Israeli settlers, outraged by the fatal shootings, drove to the northern Palestinian towns of Hawara and Burin and hurled stones at Palestinian houses and smashed cars. "We will continue to fight terror with all our might and we will win." "I want to tell all those who seek to harm us - all options are open," he said in a video statement. The Israeli military said it was sending reinforcements to the West Bank and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to "settle the score with the murderers." The surge in violence has killed 128 Palestinians and 24 people on the Israeli side so far this year, according to a tally by The Associated Press, prompting many on either side of the conflict to fear a possible greater conflagration. Palestinian militants targeted Israeli military vehicles with powerful roadside bombs and Israeli forces deployed helicopter gunships to evacuate stranded troops. The attack underscored the fragility of the situation in the West Bank, where on Monday an Israeli military raid into the northern Jenin refugee camp ignited some of the fiercest Israeli-Palestinian fighting in years, killing six Palestinians and wounding scores more. The Hamas militant group claimed both assailants as members. ![]() Israeli security forces said they also shot and killed another Palestinian assailant who later fled the shooting scene. JERUSALEM - A Palestinian attacker opened fire at a gas station near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding several others before being shot, authorities said, as violence continued to roil the occupied territory. Israeli police stand next to the body of a Palestinian gunman Tuesday at the scene of a shooting attack near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Eli. ![]()
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