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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Monday to catch the “despicable killers” behind the West Bank terror attack three Israelis dead, including a policeman.
Off-duty Master Sergeant Elad Yaakov Winkelstein and sisters-in-law Rachel Cohen and Aliza Raiz were killed by gunmen who opened fire on vehicles in the Palestinian village of Al-Funduq, according to The Times of Israel.
Eight other people were injured in the attack – including the 63-year-old bus driver – and the Israeli military launched a manhunt for two suspected attackers linked to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“My wife and I express our deepest condolences to the families of the three people killed in this morning’s horrific attack and wish the injured a full recovery,” Netanyahu wrote at X. “We will get to the heinous killers and bring them to justice and all who aided them. No one will be spared.”
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Israeli emergency services arrive at the scene of a terrorist attack in the West Bank on Monday, January 6. Three Israelis were killed when terrorists opened fire on the bus and other vehicles. (Nadav Goldstein/TPS-IL)
The eyewitness who spoke with Press Service of Israel called the attack a “shootout”.
“I saw a Palestinian … take an M16 out of the back window and point it at the vehicles and that’s when I realized it was an attack,” he said. “And I saw vehicles turning around and all this chaos and then I realized they were coming at me in a second and I was next in line so I started shooting at them.”
“I am a civilian and I have my own private gun. If they had given me an M16, I think their situation would have been different,” the eyewitness added.
Three Israelis were killed and eight were injured after a terrorist attack on a bus and other vehicles in the West Bank village of Al-Funduq. (Nadav Goldstein/TPS-IL)
Paramedic from the Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom said for The Jerusalem Post that the attack “spread to multiple scenes where vehicles and a bus were hit with firearms.”
“During our first search for victims, we found 2 women…in the vehicle, unconscious, without a pulse or breathing, with gunshot wounds,” said Avichai Ben Zuria. “About 150 meters away, there was an unconscious driver who also suffered gunshot wounds. After medical examinations, unfortunately, their injuries were severe and we had to declare them deceased.”
Winkelstein is described as 40 years old, while Cohen, 73, is a school counselor and mother of five, the Jerusalem Post reports. Raiz, who is 70 years old, is also a school counselor, the media added.
Israeli police blocked a road after gunmen opened fire on cars and a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank, killing at least three people, near the Palestinian village of Al-Funduq on Monday, January 6. (AP/Nasser Nasser)
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Palestinian terrorist group Hamas released a statement praising the attack, the Associated Press reported.
