2023 Huwara shooting

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2023 Huwara shooting
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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The attack aftermath
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Location of Huwara, West Bank
Native nameפיגוע הירי בחווארה
Location Huwara, Israeli-occupied West Bank
Date26 February 2023 (2023-02-26)
13:40 (UTC+2)
Target Israelis
Attack type
 Mass shooting
Weapons M16 rifle
Deaths2 victims
Perpetrator Hamas [1] [2]
No. of participants
1

On 26 February 2023, an unidentified person fatally shot two Israeli settlers in their car in Huwara, a town south of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Following the shooting, Israeli settlers carried out revenge attacks on Palestinians, which have killed at least one Palestinian and injured around 100 others. On 7 March, one 49-year-old suspect was killed during an Israeli incursion into Jenin.

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Shooting

Incident

On 26 February 2023, four days after the incursion in Nablus, an unidentified attacker shot and killed two Israelis in a car near the Einbus intersection along Highway 60 in Huwara, south of Nablus. [3] [4] The attacker shot the two Israelis with an M16 rifle while they were driving [5] and then fled the scene on foot. [6]

Assailant

Sources pointed to a Hamas gunman as the assailant, [7] [8] but no group claimed responsibility for the shooting. [3] On March 7, the suspected attacker, 49-year-old Abdel Fattah Hussein Kharousha, was killed along with five other Palestinians during an Israeli raid in Jenin. [9] [10] [11]

Victims

The two Israelis killed in the shooting were brothers named Hillel Menachem Yaniv and Yagel Ya’acov Yaniv. They were from the Har Brakha settlement, [12] and were described as yeshiva students. [13] One of the brothers had just completed his service in the Israeli Navy. [14]

Subsequent riots

Later on the same day, groups of Israeli settlers rioted in the region, carrying out revenge attacks. One Palestinian man was fatally shot in the abdomen in neighboring Za'tara. An analysis by journalists for +972 Magazine of 14 videos of the assault conducted by 40-50 settlers, who had returned to Za'tara after being repulsed the first time, concluded that the simultaneous attack on Za'atara in which Sameh Aqtesh was shot dead was conducted under Israeli army escort. [15] In Huwara itself, 98 Palestinians were injured as settlers torched Palestinian homes. [3] [14] [16]

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  6. ↑ Breiner, Josh (26 February 2023). "Israeli Settlers Rampage Through West Bank Town; Palestinians Report One Killed, Dozens Wounded" . Haaretz. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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  8. ↑ Federman, Josef (26 February 2023). "Israeli settlers rampage after Palestinian gunman kills 2 in West Bank". PBS NewsHour. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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  12. ↑ Joffre, Tzvi (26 February 2023). "'No words can console us': Hillel, Yagel Yaniv killed in terror attack". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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  14. 1 2 Joffre, Tzvi; Jeremy Bob, Yonah; Silkoff, Shira (27 February 2023). "Huwara terrorist still at large after killing two, manhunt underway". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  15. ↑ Ziv, Oren; Abraham, Yuval (5 March 2023). "'I couldn't see if my brother's murderer was a soldier or settler'". +972 Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  16. ↑ Lieber, Dov; Boxerman, Aaron (26 February 2023). "Israel, Palestinian Authority Pledge to Reduce West Bank Violence". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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