A man was killed and three others wounded on Tuesday in a vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank.
The fatality was later identified as 71-year-old Aharon Cohen, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron. The wounded victims: a woman in her 50s, a 30-year-old man, and a 15-year-old boy, were taken to hospitals in Jerusalem, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.
An Israeli settler was killed and three others were injured in an attack near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli medical services.
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Preliminary findings by the Israel Defense Forces revealed that the attack was carried out by two Palestinian assailants who rammed their vehicle into people at the junction before one exited and stabbed several victims.
Israeli troops shot dead both attackers at the scene. Palestinian officials later identified them as 18-year-olds Imran al-Atrash and Walid Sabarneh.
The attack follows a surge in settler-Palestinian violence, with U.S. officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that unrest could threaten the fragile Gaza truce.
The incident comes a day after the U.N. Security Council backed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza governance plan, which calls for deploying an international stabilization force and establishing a potential path toward a sovereign Palestinian state. Hamas rejected the U.N. resolution.
