{"id":480868,"date":"2026-06-07T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480868\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:17:09","slug":"one-person-killed-in-attack-in-central-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480868\/","title":{"rendered":"One person killed in attack in central Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 35-year-old man was killed and five others injured in a series \u200bof shootings on Sunday in central Israel near the \u200coccupied West Bank<\/a> that police described as a suspected terror attack.<\/p>\n

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A police spokesperson said the suspected gunman, an Israeli Arab from the nearby Israeli \u200bcity Tayibe<\/a>, was also killed and a firearm was \u200bfound in his possession. Israeli media reported a second \u2060suspect was also killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge police forces remain at the scene, \u200band searches are continuing,\u201d the police said in an earlier statement, \u200burging the public to remain vigilant. Local media identified the 35-year-old dead man as an Israeli citizen.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s ambulance service said the man died \u200bfrom gunshot wounds. It described the incident as a drive-by \u200bshooting, with five others injured in shootings at three nearby locations, two \u200cof \u2060them seriously.<\/p>\n

Police said they had located the suspected vehicle used.<\/p>\n

The shootings took place near the Palestinian West Bank city of Qalqilya. Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attack but did not claim \u200bresponsibility.<\/p>\n

Israeli soldiers were \u200bdeployed to \u2060one of the sites in central Israel and to a nearby Israeli settlement in the West \u200bBank after the shootings, the military said.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister \u200bBenjamin Netanyahu<\/a> \u2060has been briefed, his office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich<\/a> called for a \u201cprofound change\u201d among Israel\u2019s Arab community, saying \u2060they \u200bare a \u201cdangerous and extremist breeding ground \u200bfor terrorism is growing that seeks to destroy the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 35-year-old man was killed and five others injured in a series \u200bof shootings on Sunday in central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-480868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}