On video: the moments of the shooting in the attack at the Beit Arava intersection (photo: MDA spokesmen)
A 27-year-old American citizen was shot to death today (Monday) by gunfire on Route 90, near the Beit Arava intersection near Jericho.
The MDA team that was called to the scene gave him initial medical treatment and evacuated him to the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem while performing CPR - where later the doctors had no choice but to determine his death. This is the third murder in the attack within a day, and the 14th within a month. Another vehicle was damaged by
fire The terrorists - but its occupants were not injured. They reported the attack to the security forces from the Almog intersection near the scene. Searches are being conducted for the terrorist and roadblocks have been set up around Jericho. One of the passengers in the car that was hit by the shooting said that the attackers overtook them - and opened fire while driving. "The terrorist's car overtook us Then one of the terrorists came out, pointed the gun at us - and missed," he said. "It happened 300 meters after the Beit Arava intersection.
We saw that there were three people in the terrorists' car." A burnt out car was found not far from the scene of the attack.
"The circumstances are difficult."
The vehicle that was hit by the shooting (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
MDA CEO Eli Bin said that their team called an intensive care unit and performed CPR on the young man.
"Unfortunately, he suffers from many gunshot wounds," he said.
"We identified another vehicle at the scene with signs of gunshots - but there were no casualties. The incident was handed over to the security forces. Unfortunately, these are very difficult circumstances."
MDA paramedic Aden Cohen, who treated the injured person, said that when she arrived at the scene, she saw him outside the vehicle, suffering from wounds to his upper body. resuscitation operations".
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"The terrorist came out and pulled out a gun."
The vehicle that was shot near Jericho (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
Another vehicle was hit by the shooting.
Security forces at the scene of the attack, today (photo: official website, MDA spokesperson)
Earlier today, a 17-year-old boy from Taiba was arrested at Kibbutz Nir David on suspicion of planning to carry out an attack in Nahal Hasi.
This, after he uploaded a video to social networks in which he expressed his intention to harm the Jews there.
The police were called to the scene and located the suspect within the kibbutz.
In initial questioning, he denied what was attributed to him.
A young man was seriously injured.
The vehicle that was hit by the shooting (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
Yesterday the two brothers Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 21 years old, and Weigel Yaakov Yaniv, 19 years old, were murdered in a shooting attack in Samaria, near Hawara.
The two, residents of Har Bracha, studied at the Hesder yeshiva.
The MDA team that arrived at the scene gave them medical treatment and evacuated them to the hospital in Linson, but they were later pronounced dead. The investigation of the attack reveals that the terrorist apparently shot Israelis, residents of a settlement in Samaria, from point blank range with a gun. According to a security source, 12 backpacks were found at the scene.
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