‘Natural reaction’ – One Israeli killed in Jordan Valley shooting

By the staff of Palestine Chronicle

The Israeli military said its forces have launched a manhunt for the perpetrators and are conducting extensive search and combing operations in the area.

One person was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli media reported.

According to Israeli Army Radio, Israeli occupation authorities are currently pursuing the vehicle involved in the shooting near the Mehola settlement in the Jordan Valley.

Israeli media also reported that the Israeli army has sent reinforcements to the site of the attack.

According to Al-Jazeera, the Israeli military said its forces have launched a manhunt for the perpetrators and are conducting extensive search and combing operations in the area.

Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Badhan near Nablus, following a shooting that killed one Israeli settler and wounded others in the Jordan Valley. photo.twitter.com/QYbZLdR5Ih

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According to reports, gunmen opened fire on several vehicles near the village of Mehola in the Jordan Valley region.

Following the attack, Israeli forces stormed the villages of Kardala and Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley in an effort to locate the suspects.

Israel’s Channel 13 reported that the shooting targeted two cars on Route 90, near the settlement of Mehola.

Additionally, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that the attack took place at two different locations in the Jordan Valley.

Natural reaction

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas issued a statement praising the “heroic shooting,” calling it “a natural response to the brutal crimes and genocide committed by the fascist occupation army in Gaza and the ongoing massacres of unarmed civilians,” including Saturday’s Tabaeen massacre that killed more than 100 Palestinians.

“These continued and escalating heroic operations in the West Bank confirm the clear message of our Palestinian people: they will continue to resist and confront the violations and crimes of the occupation, its army and its settlers,” the statement said.

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“All the criminal practices in the West Bank and the brutal massacres in Gaza will not deter our revolutionary youth and our brave resistance from fulfilling their duty to make the occupation and its settlers pay for their fascist crimes.”

In its statement, Hamas also called on “our brave resistance movement and our revolutionary youth in the occupied West Bank to continue the fight against the criminal occupation army and its settler gangs, to confront the ongoing incursions and attacks on the towns, villages and camps of the West Bank, and to step up their heroic operations until the last soldier and settler is expelled from our holy land.”

(PC, AJA)