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Israel shootings leave one dead and five injured, police identify attacker as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, officials debate death penalty for terrorists.
Members of Israel’s ZAKA search and rescue emergency services inspect the vehicle of a victim in a suspected shooting attack in the town of Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel close to the occupied West Bank on Sunday. (Image: AFP)
At least one person was killed and five injured in multiple shootings in Israel on Sunday, officials said adding that the attacker was identified as a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
AFP quoted Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom saying that 35-year-old man had died of gunshot wounds. The service “provided medical treatment and evacuated to hospitals five injured people, including two in serious condition and three in moderate condition, with penetrating injuries to their bodies”.
According to a police statement, the suspect was killed near the town of Kokhav Yair, a few kilometres away from the occupied West Bank. Another accused was arrested later.
“During the arrest, the suspect attempted to stab the detectives and was subdued and arrested,” the police statement said.
AFP quoted an eyewitness, Shachar Hazon, saying that she was on her way to work when she heard gunfire, and sought shelter in a cafe at a petrol station in Kokhav Yair.
“I heard a single gunshot, really loud — so loud it actually hurt my ears,” she said. “I looked right and left to understand what was happening, and I saw a man who had just come to refuel, holding his shoulder, because apparently that’s where he was hit, and after a few seconds he fell to the ground.”
Police further said attacks also took place in the nearby towns of Tzur Natan and Tzur Yitzhak.
AFP quoted police chief Danny Levy saying that in Tzur Yitzhak the attacker there was a Palestinian citizen of Israel, or an Arab-Israeli, from the nearby town of Taybeh. He had a criminal record.
National security minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who was also with the police chief, said that “the law on the death penalty for terrorists also applies to Israeli Arabs”.
“If he had been captured, I would have demanded that he be executed. But it is better that he was eliminated beforehand,” he said.
The remarks came following Ben Gvir’s previous comments in a social media post: “Jewish blood is not cheap. Whoever murders a Jew will see the hangman’s noose.”
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