An Israeli soldier was killed on Sunday afternoon during a terrorist attack in the area of the Jit Junction in Samaria.
The soldier was identified as Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav, 20, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion, from Lotem.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said he sent his “heartfelt condolences” to Kav’s family and embraced them “on behalf of the entire Israeli people.
The Israeli military “will continue to fight with determination against Palestinian terrorism, strike at its perpetrators and its instigators, and will not allow it to raise its head,” Katz tweeted in Hebrew.
Rescue Without Borders in Judea and Samaria reported that one person, later identified as Kav, had suffered a head injury in a vehicular assault near the junction, located near Kedumim.
Israeli media reported that after being hit by the vehicle, Kav was then struck by gunfire from Israeli forces firing on the terrorist, according to the Israeli military a Palestinian from Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria.
Soldiers from the Samaria Brigade were conducting searches in case additional individuals were involved.
On Sept. 18, a Jordanian terrorist killed two Israeli soldiers in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at Israel’s Allenby Crossing with the Hashemite Kingdom.
The IDF identified the slain troops as Sgt. Oran Hershko, 20, a liaison officer in the army’s international cooperation unit; and Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh, 68, an officer in the Civil Administration’s Unit 309.
The death toll among Israeli troops on all fronts since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre now stands at 913.
