Israeli killed and 5 wounded in gunfire inside the occupied Palestinian territory
An Israeli settler was killed and five others were wounded between critical and serious, following a double and compound shooting attack that targeted several sites and settler communities in the "Sharon" area and the vicinity of the settlements of "Kochav Yair" and "Tzur Yitzhak" inside the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, and close to the apartheid wall south and Qalqilya.
The Israeli occupation police announced in a statement that the initial investigations indicated that the attack was carried out in a coordinated manner across more than one geographical axis, in conjunction with reports monitored by the Hebrew Channel 15 indicating a suspicion of a security infiltration operation parallel to the eastern settlements.
The Israeli official broadcaster Kan 11, citing the police command, confirmed that one of the perpetrators of the attack was a Palestinian youth from the city of Taybeh in the occupied territory, noting that security forces shot him directly at the site, killing him.
The Authority added that the tight security chase and field pursuit in which helicopters and ground units participated resulted in the arrest of the second perpetrator of the operation without revealing his identity until now.
Meanwhile, Israeli police spokesman Aryeh Doron said suspicions were being raised about the complex organizational nature of the operation, which was planned and managed by more than one person to ensure maximum losses.
Sequence of Field Operations
The offensive began at the vital gas station in the settlement of Kochav Yair, where resistance fighters opened fire suddenly , injuring two settlers, and then the attack moved to the entrance to the nearby settlement of Tzur Yitzhak, injuring another settler with moderate injuries to the hand.
Ambulance crews found two injured people on a nearby street and on Route 5533, one in his 40s in a critical and unstable condition before she breathed her last and was pronounced dead, and the other in a serious condition.
Israeli ambulance crews transported all the wounded to the Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Campus) in Petah Tikva and the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
The army and police forces imposed a complete security cordon on the surrounding area, and began to erect permanent and temporary military checkpoints, verify the identities of passers-by, and close the entrances leading to the towns of "Salit" and "Tzur Yitzhak".
Alert in Tel Aviv
In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency and extensive session to assess the security situation with the participation of the leaders of the intelligence and military services, during which he received comprehensive security briefings on the dimensions of the operation and the security breach, according to his office in an official statement.
The statement pointed out that the Inspector General of the Israeli Police, Danny Levy, went to the scene of the operations to directly supervise the precautionary measures, and this operation comes one day after violent attacks launched by settlers on the West Bank town of Huwara that resulted in the injury of 13 Palestinians and the residents responded to them by putting out the fires, which reflects the peak of the explosion on the ground.