IDF soldiers stopped a stabbing attack by a Palestinian assailant in Hebron on Saturday.
The suspect was “neutralized” at the scene, the military said. No injuries were reported.
Overnight Tuesday, Israeli security forces arrested the mastermind behind the Jan. 6 terrorist shooting in Al-Funduq village, near Qalqilya in western Samaria, which killed three Israeli civilians and wounded several others. The suspect was apprehended in Jenin by IDF troops operating with Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) intelligence.
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said on Sunday that he was moving his office to the site of the May 14 terrorist shooting in which a pregnant Israeli woman was killed and her husband was wounded.
“Following the severe terrorist attack in which Tzeela Gez, may God avenge her blood, was murdered, the office of the council head was moved to an open tent opposite the village of Bruqin,” Dagan wrote in a message to residents on Sunday.
Bruqin “is a hornet’s nest,” Dagan charged. “We expect the government of Israel to carry out military operations here in Bruqin, just like it has belatedly begun to do—at the cost of blood—in northern Samaria.”
There has been a wave of Palestinian terrorists targeting Israeli drivers across Judea and Samaria with rocks since the murder of Gez, Channel 14 News reported on Wednesday.
According to the broadcaster, stone-throwing terrorism has been recorded in areas that were relatively quiet until the Bruqin attack, including in the Palestinian town of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya along Route 60 in central Samaria.
Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 6,343 times in 2024, according to figures published by Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria).
Twenty-seven Israelis were murdered in Judea and Samaria in 2024, and more than 300 others were wounded, the group said in its annual report.
