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| IDF shot Paleo who drew air gun on soldiers in Hebron, hunt for another shooter near settlement finally successful |
| 2025-08-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] A Palestinian suspect who drew an air gun at troops at a military post in the West Bank city of Hebron was shot, the army says. Soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade initially thought it was a real gun and opened fire on the man, seriously wounding him. “After an investigation at the scene, it emerged that it was an air gun,” the military says. Palestinian detained for allegedly firing at Israeli civilians in West Bank yesterday, security forces say Israeli soldiers and police officers detained a Palestinian suspected of opening fire on a group of Israeli civilians near the West Bank settlement of Adei Ad yesterday, the Shin Bet, IDF and Israel Police say. The 30-year-old Palestinian, a resident of the nearby village of al-Mughayyir, had allegedly fired at the Israelis — without hitting any — before engaging in a physical confrontation, during which one Israeli man was lightly hurt. He was nabbed yesterday, several hours after the shooting, according to a military official. During an initial interrogation by the Shin Bet, the suspect provided “findings that tied him to the attack,” the joint Shin Bet, IDF and police statement says. The Israeli forces found a handgun suspected to have been used in the attack, the statement adds. IDF encircling Palestinian village in manhunt for shooting attack suspect [IsraelTimes] The IDF is hunting for the suspect in today’s shooting attack in the West Bank. The military says a Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israeli civilians near the northern West Bank settlement of Adei Ad this morning. According to the IDF, “a physical confrontation developed” between the assailant and civilians in the area, during which one Israeli man was lightly injured and taken to a hospital. “IDF troops are now encircling the village of al-Mughayyir and other villages and conducting a manhunt for the terrorist,” the military says. Paramedics: Man lightly wounded in West Bank was hurt in fight with shooter but was not shot [IsraelTimes] The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service says the Israeli wounded during a shooting in the West Bank was injured from fighting with the shooter, not from a gunshot wound. The organization says that in the attack this morning, a gunman from the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir shot a number of times at an Israeli shepherd at the outpost of Gal Yosef. The shooter then fought with the Israeli man, who was lightly wounded in his head in that scuffle. He has been brought to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, the organization says. Magen David Adom paramedic Shaul Malka says that first responders found the man, in his 20s, fully conscious. The man told them he sustained an injury to his head. Medics provided him with first aid on site. “The incident could have ended differently,” Malka says. A police spokesman tells The Times of Israel that the IDF is managing the situation as it develops, “as with any operational incident in Judea and Samaria,” the biblical name for the West Bank. Police in the West Bank District, alongside the Shin Bet, are set to open an investigation later on, but have not yet announced one at this point. |
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