Security forces have begun surrounding a house in Hebron where the terrorist suspected of carrying out the shooting attack on Route 35 near Tarqumiyah Sunday morning is believed to be barricaded, the IDF reported in a joint statement with the Shin Bet.
A terrorist has been “neutralized” at the scene.
Ch.-Insp. Arik Ben Eliahu, Senior-NCO Hadas Brantz and Adv.-St.-Sgt.-Maj. Roni Shakuri were named as victims of the terror attack on Sunday.
Ch.-Insp. Arik Ben Eliahu, 37, from Kiryat Gat, left behind a wife, three children, parents, and two sisters.
Senior-NCO Hadas Brantz, 53, from Sde Moshe, left behind a husband, three children, a granddaughter, parents, and five siblings.
Adv.-St.-Sgt.-Maj. Roni Shakuri, 61, from Sderot, left behind a wife, a daughter, a granddaughter, and three siblings. Shakuri is the father of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Mor Shakuri, who was murdered on October 7, the police said.
Earlier, Magen David Adom (MDA) said two men in their 30s and 50s and a woman in her 30s were killed in a terror attack on Route 35 near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank.
Police later reported that the individuals who had been killed were police officers.
The IDF said terrorists had opened fire on a vehicle in the Tarqumiyah area in the West Bank.
Troops hunt for terrorists
Troops were searching for the terrorists, the military added.
Earlier, MDA said its paramedics pronounced the death of a man and a woman in their 30s while an additional man in his 50s was in critical condition and was being transferred via helicopter to the Soroka Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
MDA paramedics Tzuriel Edri and David Dahan recounted what they saw upon arrival at the scene. “This was a very severe attack. We saw a vehicle with bullet marks.”
“Three passengers were extricated from the vehicle: two men and a woman. A male and a female, both around 30 years old, were unconscious with gunshot wounds. They had no pulse and were not breathing. We fought to save their lives,” they said, but “After a few minutes, with the help of the IDF medical team, we had to pronounce the death of a woman approximately 30 years old.”
“A male, also around 50 years old, who was unconscious and suffered from gunshot wounds, received medical treatment and was evacuated to the helicopter pad, where an MDA helicopter was waiting to transfer him to Soroka Hospital in critical condition while continuing resuscitation efforts. The third male, around 30 years old, was evacuated to the pad, and unfortunately, his death was pronounced there.”