A 27-year-old man was murdered in a suspected terrorist shooting attack at the Beit HaArava Junction between the Dead Sea and Jericho Monday afternoon, raising the death toll in the recent spate of terrorist attacks to 14.
The shooter fled the scene. A security official said that the attacker opened fire at three different locations in the area.
Police forces located the terrorist and engaged in a shootout with him.
âWe identified smoke and approached a vehicle on fireâĻ and we realized that it was the vehicle of the terrorists,” a police officer stated, adding that the terrorist had set the vehicle on fire.
The terrorist aimed his gun at the police officers, prompting them to open fire.
Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah personnel treated the victim at the scene and evacuated him to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem, where he later succumbed to his wounds.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Eilon Lubiner said: “Together with additional first responders we performed CPR on a man in his 20s who suffered from gunshot wounds in his upper body. He is now being evacuated to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in critical condition while undergoing continued resuscitation efforts.”
The shooting is the second deadly terrorist shooting attack in Samaria in as many days.
