{"id":521582,"date":"2026-07-02T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/521582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:03:08","slug":"three-israelis-indicted-for-aiding-terrorist-failing-to-prevent-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/521582\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Israelis indicted for aiding terrorist, failing to prevent attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Israeli citizens were indicted at the Lod District Court on Thursday after a joint investigation by the Sharon police investigative unit and the Shin Bet found that they allegedly assisted or failed to prevent the June 7 deadly shooting attack in Kochav Yair, Tzur Yitzhak, and Sal\u2019it, Israel Police<\/a> and the Shin Bet<\/a> confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The attack was carried out by Omar Munther Yassin, an Israeli citizen from Tayibe, who killed Chief Sgt. First Class (res.) Haim Kalomiti, a member of the Tzur Natan emergency response squad, and wounded five other civilians before being killed by Tayibe police officers after a brief pursuit.<\/p>\n

According to the investigation, Alaa al-Din Jaheim and Waam Masarwa, both Israeli citizens from Tayibe, were aware of Yassin\u2019s intention to carry out a terrorist attack but did not prevent it.<\/p>\n

Investigators also obtained additional details regarding Yassin\u2019s conduct in the days leading up to the attack, police and the Shin Bet said.<\/p>\n

A third suspect, Muhammad Aftima, a resident of Baka al-Gharbiya, allegedly supplied the Carlo rifle used by Yassin during the attack.<\/p>\n

The Central District Prosecutor\u2019s Office filed the indictments following the completion of the Shin Bet and police investigation.<\/p>\n

The incident began at Kochav Yair, near Kalkilya, and continued to a gas station in the Tzur Yigal area, where the terrorist opened fire<\/a>, wounding two people. Terrorist<\/a> infiltration sirens sounded in Tsur Yitshak and Tzur Natan as a result, warning residents to shelter in place.<\/p>\n

The terrorist then continued to Tzur Yitzhak, where he shot at the town\u2019s guard post, wounding two more civilians.<\/p>\n

Then, as he was driving toward Tzur Natan, the terrorist shot at a vehicle, killing Chief Sgt. First Class (res.) Haim Kalomiti and wounding another reservist.<\/p>\n

Miriam Sela-Eitam and Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Israeli citizens were indicted at the Lod District Court on Thursday after a joint investigation by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,1158,43,73,98,2896],"class_list":["post-521582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-shin-bet","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521582","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=521582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}