Emanuel Fabian – Times of Israel Sept 1, 2024
Three Israeli police officers were killed in a shooting attack near the Palestinian city of Tarqumiyah in the southern West Bank on Sunday morning, the military, police, and medics said.
The slain officers were named as Ch. Insp. Arik Ben Eliyahu, Command Sgt. Maj. Hadas Branch, and First Sgt. Roni Shakuri.
Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a police car on Route 35 near the Idhna-Tarqumiyah junction, just east of a checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel, before fleeing the scene.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated three victims in critical condition.
Ben Eliyahu and Branch were declared dead at the scene, while Shakuri died en route to a hospital.
The gunmen were believed to have opened fire from a passing vehicle at the police car, before fleeing the scene on foot.
“Many forces launched a pursuit of the terrorists,” the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel Police Commissioner Danny Levy told reporters at the scene that the victims were officers from the police’s West Bank district.
Police later named the three.
Ben Eliyahu, 37, from Kiryat Gat, was survived by his wife and three children.
Branch, 53, from Sde Moshe, was survived by her husband, three children, and a granddaughter.
Shakuri, 61, from Sderot, was survived by his wife, a daughter, and a granddaughter.
Shakuri’s daughter Mor Shakuri, who was also a police officer, was killed battling Hamas terrorists trying to take over the Sderot police station on October 7.
The attack came after terrorists on Saturday detonated two car bombs in the southern West Bank’s Gush Etzion settlement bloc, some 15 kilometers (nine miles) northeast of Tarqumiyah. Two soldiers were lightly and one moderately hurt in the explosions.
The attackers, who were killed in the attack, were both from Hebron.
Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, a soldier was killed and three were wounded, including one in serious condition, in a shootout with Hamas gunmen in Jenin on Saturday, amid large-scale IDF operations in the area.
Violence has soared in the West Bank during the war in Gaza sparked on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 29 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank — including in Sunday’s attack. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.
More fantasy dead Jews being ‘killed’ by fictitious ‘Hamas’. Show us the bodies of the dead Yids or I call hoax.
Article states: ‘Palestinian gunmen opened fire on police car on route 35’. Ok so show us the video of the attack or I call hoax. Cameras are everywhere & every Yid has a smartphone on him, so where’s the video of it??
No different to what “settlers” do to West Bank Palestinians.
LIVE BY THE SWORD,
DIE BY THE SWORD.
HOAX
Yids must report fictitious Jews are dying to make people believe these vermin are in a ‘real war’.
@ MYA
HOPE THEY TAKE YOUR HOME +
ALL YOUR BELONGINGS ! set you out
on a cold winternight !
worldwide intifada to rid OUR countries of this ‘money magic mafia’
real change, all the london kike bankers hung drawn & quartered in public
I ama black woman.
While i sympathise with the dozen or so white women roughed up at the Notting Hill carnival
the question must be asked, why were they there ?
its not for white folk.
Black women do not like to see their men with white women.
The Notting Hill event is our way to get together show our artistic displays
and enjoy the music and our culture, black culture, intruders are not really welcome
in future white folk stay home
rememeber its the israelis who are the terrorists
palestine has the right to defend itself
Teresa May ex prime minister exposed as a traitor to the UK
https://www.renegadetribune.com/theresa-may-the-jews-and-israel/
its rather nice when the jews get some of their medicine back
every jew that dies is an event to celebrate for everyone else in the world
I live near the notting hill stabbings festival
we that is the english people lock ourselves indoors for the event
and do not go out until its over.
From our windows we see policemen dancing with the revellers blacks guys dancing in the policemans helmets.
there may be acts of violence neary but police dont see it
compare that to those UK people who demonstrated that commie bastard starmer
had them all sent to prison
why is there this 2 tier system of justice in this country and why is starmer so damn racist ?