Overview
- A Palestinian gunman opened fire at the Ein Raya spring near Neve Tzuf, fatally wounding Netanel (Nati) Shakron and allowing his 16-year-old son to escape after Shakron shouted for him to run.
- Israeli military investigators say the attacker scouted the spring the day before and targeted the site because it is crowded before Yom Kippur, according to preliminary findings.
- An IDF combat tracker wounded the gunman as he fled, and soldiers from the elite Duvdevan unit later arrested the suspect, identified by Israeli security as 37-year-old Qadri Samara, at a medical facility in Ramallah.
- Israeli forces launched large operations in the attacker’s hometown of Biddu that included searches, questioning and mapping the suspect’s home for possible demolition, and the military reinforced deployments across the West Bank.
- Senior Israeli ministers have asked for legal review of applying the March law that makes the death penalty the default for non-Israelis convicted of deadly nationalist attacks, while Palestinian officials criticized the hospital arrest and the raids.