Israeli Killed in West Bank Shooting; Soldiers Kill Palestinian Motorist
The military said it detained the shooter at a Ramallah hospital and killed a second Palestinian after a ramming attempt near Jenin.
- On Sunday, September 20, 2026, a gunman fired from a vehicle at visitors at the Ein Rayah spring near Neve Tzuf in the West Bank, critically wounding a man in his 30s who later died at a hospital.
- The Israel Defense Forces launched a widespread manhunt using drones and roadblocks, imposing a military closure on the nearby village of Deir Nidham before capturing the injured suspect at a hospital hours later.
- Shortly after the shooting, soldiers killed a Palestinian man near the settlement of Ganim, north of the city of Jenin, after he attempted to carry out a vehicular ramming attack against military personnel.
- Hamas called the shooting a "legitimate and natural response" to settlement incursions, while tensions across the West Bank escalated ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered security agencies to "beef up their forces" for offensive activities, as local officials reported that at least 28 people were detained during the ongoing security crackdown.
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The tension is extreme in the West Bank, a few hours from the beginning of Yom Kippur. An Israeli was shot dead on Sunday 20 September in the morning near the settlement of Halamish, near Ramallah, while he was with his son near a water source. The alleged assailant was captured shortly afterwards by the Israeli army. Almost at the same time, a Palestinian was killed by the army, accusing him of having tried to throw his car at soldiers.
IDF commandos captured the Palestinian terrorist who carried out the deadly shooting attack at a natural spring in the West Bank this morning, after locating him at a hospital in the Ramallah area, the military says
Shortly after the terror attack, the combat tracker for the Binyamin Regional Brigade opened fire on the gunman as he fled, injuring him, according to the IDF.The IDF says soldiers of the Duvdevan Commando...
Israeli settler and Palestinian driver killed in West Bank shootings
A suspected Palestinian gunman on Sunday shot dead an Israeli man near a West Bank settlement, according to Israeli officials. The gunman was located at a Ramallah hospital and arrested, police said. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian motorist who the military said was attempting to run them over. The flare up in violence came on the eve of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
Israeli soldiers take down a man who tried to attack them with a vehicle in Jenin
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