At least one person was killed. five others wounded in multiple shooting attacks in Israel on Sunday, authorities said, with one of the perpetrators killed.
Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom said a man about 35 years old had died of gunshot wounds.
The service also “provided medical treatment. evacuated to hospitals five injured people, including two in serious condition and three in moderate condition, with penetrating injuries to their bodies”, it added.
Police said they had located a vehicle suspected of involvement. killed a suspect believed to be responsible near the town of Kokhav Yair, a few kilometres away from the occupied West Bank.
Rescuers said attacks also took place in the nearby towns of Tzur Natan and Tzur Yitzhak.
Israel’s military toldAFPthat one perpetrator had been killed and searches were ongoing for a second.
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had “held a situational assessment. is monitoring the deadly shooting attack”.
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir wrote on X. “if the terrorist is caught alive — he will be executed”.
He was referring to a recently approvedIsraeli lawthat imposes the death penalty on Palestinians convicted by military courts of terror charges for deadly anti-Israeli attacks.
“Jewish blood is not cheap. Whoever murders a Jew will see the hangman’s noose,” Ben Gvir said.
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