Palestinian Terrorists Gun Down 3 Israeli Civilians in West Bank Attack; IDF Launches Manhunt
Jerusalem Post: Terrorist gunmen “affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
Palestinian terrorists murdered three Israeli civilians and wounded eleven others in a West Bank attack.
Three terrorists belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), on Monday morning, took up positions at the side of the road and opened fire at passing vehicles near the Israeli town of Kedumim.
“Three people were murdered and six were wounded when terrorists opened fire from a passing vehicle at a bus and a car on Highway 55 between Karnei Shomron and Kedumim in Samaria Monday morning,” the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported. “Significant numbers of security and medical forces are at the scene of the attack. A search is underway for the terrorists.”
The victims of the terror attack were identified as two women in their 70s and a 40-year-old off-duty policeman.
May their beautiful memories always be blessed!
The three Israelis murdered in today's shooting terror attack near Kedumim, have been named as:
🕯️ Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, 35
🕯️ Rachel Cohen, 73
🕯️ Aliza Raiz, 70Aliza and Rachel were also sisters-in-law. pic.twitter.com/tS1YkMWcXK
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) January 6, 2025
All three terrorist fugitives are believed to be hiding in or around the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Nablus, a safe haven for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups.
The Israeli army launched a massive manhunt in the area after the attack. “The IDF said that it had dispatched a large number of troops, as well as an Israeli Air Force helicopter, to search for the terrorists,” The Times of Israel reported. “The army said it set up roadblocks near the attack site, and placed cordons around the city of Nablus and several other nearby villages.”
Footage from a surveillance video aired by the Israeli public broadcaster Kan shows a terrorist emerging from his car and driving away from the scene after the shooting.
מחבל יוצא מהרכב, יורה ונמלט: תיעוד מהפיגוע בכפר פונדק@carmeldangor pic.twitter.com/tE1iayttr9
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) January 6, 2025
The Jerusalem Post reported the plight of the terror victims:
Two women in their 70s and a man in his 40s were killed, and eight others were wounded in a shooting terror attack near Kedumim in the West Bank, Israel’s emergency medical response service, Magen David Adom (MDA) [the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross] said on Monday.
The man and women were later identified as Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, Rachel Cohen, and Aliza Reiss.
Winkelstein was an Israel Police Staff -Sergeant Major. Cohen, 73, was a school counselor and the mother of five daughters. Reiss, 70, was also a school counselor and is survived by her children and family.
MDA added that its paramedics were providing treatment to the 63-year-old bus driver who sustained serious wounds, a woman in her 60s in moderate condition, and six people who suffered from light wounds. They were subsequently transferred to the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva and the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.
Following the deadly terrorist attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) vowed to intensify its ongoing counter-terrorism operation in the area. “We are engaged in intense and wide-ranging combat against terrorism in Judea and Samaria. We will intensify and continue this combat,” IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen Herzi Halevi, said.
The Israeli military was closing in on the terrorists. “For the terrorists who carried out this attack, the clock is ticking. We will find out who perpetrated this attack and reach them,” the IDF chief assured.
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It’s what you call a stable situation. Palestinians prove they’re the meanest terrorists around, capable of drawing attention in the Western press, and so worthy of state support from Iran. That side gets what it wants by causing trouble, the more trouble the better it works.
The Western press in turn likes the clickbait – see how mean these terrorists are, it’s quite beyond the pale. Clicks for them. Stability.
Israel reacts as it normally does, in self defense. So far only Israel has the right reaction in killing them all.
I cannot understand while Israelis die from terror attacks and are kidnapped and subjected to terrible things, why does Israel lose even more soldiers lives trying to save so called civilians.
Arab terrorists AND those who support them, should be dealt with harshly, not this wishy wash BS about civilians who really are not.
There should be no haven for terrorists in the modern world. These backwards people want to live in a barbaric situation.
They want all of us to live under their thumb and rules. They would happily bring on a new dark age.
If western powers — who collectively possess sufficient military might and resources to turn all Islamofascist states, terrorist groups and terrorist safe havens into ash, many times over — weren’t paralyzed by contemptible and cowed dhimmitude, instilled by emasculated, feckless, stupid, gullible and destructive leftist dhimmis and Dhimmi-crats, all Islamofascists, Muslim supremacists and terrorists would have been killed and defeated, thoroughly.
I hate to disagree with you, but very bad people cannot be completely eliminated. New ones keep springing up, and the kind of totalitarianism you wouldn’t like would be necessary.
But it’s certainly true that we could do better.
I suspect the totalitarian state is coming in any case.
Palestinian terrorists?
Wait just a minute. Don’t you mean “muslims who were radicalized?”
Any time we have a terrorist attack by a muslim they say, “Hey, h was radicalized!” Which means that a peace loving man was taken to Haiti where a voodoo sorcerer turned him into a zombie. Then he goes around in a trance killing people without knowing what he’s doing.
Palestine is a fictional construct of mooslim conquest wars
I am pretty sure that Romans named it Palestine after they enslaved Jews and eventually banished them from their homeland.
Columbia U’s faculty and administration must be gleeful over this news.
HY”D
“the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Nablus, a safe haven for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups.”
Sounds like Israel needs to treat Nablus the same way they’d treat a terrorist stronghold in Gaza.
If the PA won’t clean it out, I’m sure the IDF is up to the task.
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