A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed two Israelis on Saturday in Huwara, located just outside Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria.
Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel treated two men, one around 30 years old and another in his 60s, for gunshot wounds. They were both soon pronounced dead at the scene.
The attack took place after the two men had stopped at a car wash in the Palestinian Authority-controlled village. It was not immediately clear why they were there.
According to reports, the terrorist walked up to the car wash on foot, opened fire with a handgun and fled.
The Israel Defense Forces launched a manhunt for the terrorist as well as possible accomplices and set up roadblocks in the area.
Hamas praised the “heroic” attack, which the Gaza Strip-based terror group described as a result of “the firm promise by the resistance to defend our [Palestinian] people, respond to the crimes of the occupation and protect the Al-Aqsa mosque from the danger of Judaization.”
Huwara has emerged as a center of Palestinian terrorism, prompting Israeli authorities to heighten security.
In June, an Israeli driver was lightly injured by glass shards in a shooting near the town, a day after two IDF soldiers were wounded when a terrorist rammed them with his vehicle there.
The IDF recently upgraded the road infrastructure in Huwara to increase security for drivers on Route 60, the main north-south highway in Samaria that passes through the village, as an interim step until a bypass road can be completed.
The changes followed a series of terrorist attacks, including the murder of brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, as they sat in traffic on Feb. 26.
Seventy-one percent of Palestinians supported the terrorist murder of the brothers, according to a public opinion poll. Only 21% of those surveyed were against the attack.
Dual Israeli-U.S. citizen David Stern, 41, narrowly survived a shooting attack on March 19 as he drove through Huwara with his wife on their way to Jerusalem.
In addition to the infrastructure changes, a large number of IDF soldiers have been deployed to the area and 13 new defensive positions were built to discourage attacks and to reduce security forces’ response times.
The IDF’s Samaria Brigade has also bolstered security inspections, including the deployment of additional checkpoint barriers.
Those celebrating the terror murders should be exterminated. That support for terror, whether from other Muslims or from American politicians should be unacceptable. None of them deserve life.
In the 1980s, a Rabbi from Brooklyn wanted to expel all Arab froms Israel.
This would have prevented thousands of Jewish deaths — by Arab terrorists.
How many Jews were never born, because their parents were killed by Arab terrorists?
How many Jews became orphans, because their parents were killed by Arab terrorists?
How many Jews left Eretz HaKodesh for galut,
because of trauma created by Arab terrorists?
Instead of expelling Arabs from Israel, we expelled stupidly Jews from Gaza.
SEND ALL ARABS TO CHINA!! THEY KNOW HOW TO HANDLE MUSLIMS!!
PS: Any Jew who voluntarily chooses an Arab or Muslim doctor or pharmacist is making a terrible mistake.
Elected PMs in Israel are puppets of the non-elected radical leftist Supreme Court and have no power.
Crazy story. Huwara should be dealt with asap, this place has caused so much pain and anguish.
Also this story is a true proof of the importance of Shmiras Shabbos.