The shooting, which took place on the outskirts of a checkpoint in Hebron, near an Israeli colony, intervenes in a context of increased violence, a few days of new legislative elections.
Le Monde with AFP
An Israeli was killed by a Palestinian shooter and four other injured people, including a Palestinian, on Saturday in Hebron, in an occupied West Bank, said the ISRAEULIAN ALB and the Army.
The assailant, who opened fire near a checkpoint in Hebron, was killed by a security guard, said the army, adding that the soldiers were looking for possible accomplices.
The Magen David Adom rescuers, Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, first reported that one of the Israelis affected, 50 years old, was “unconscious, injured on the upper body”. A spokesperson for Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem then told the France-Presse (AFP) agency that he had succumbed to his injuries.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the Palestinian injured was treated at Hébron hospital. The other three Israeli injuries are more slightly affected.
Hebron, Poudrière city
The extreme right -wing Israeli deputy Itamar Ben -Gvir, candidate on the “religious Zionism” list in the legislative elections of 1 er November, said that his house in Hebron – a city that houses a Community of radical Jewish settlers – was the target of this attack. Israeli security forces have not confirmed this allegation and the Israeli media, citing security sources, reported that Ben-Gvir’s house in a colony of Hebron had not been targeted.
Hebron is a Powderian city where a thousand Jewish settlers live among 200,000 Palestinians. This attack comes a few days before the holding of new general elections in Israel, the fifths in less than four years, in a context of renewed violence in the West Bank, occupied since 1967.
About 474,000 Jewish settlers are installed in the West Bank in colonies considered illegal by most countries of the international community, among 2.9 million Palestinians.