Israeli forces raided the Hebron area overnight Sunday into Monday, targeting the home of the terrorist who carried out a brutal ramming attack at Gush Etzion Junction. Soldiers searched the attacker’s home and interrogated suspects close to him.
The ramming attack left three people injured—a 17-year-old girl in critical condition and a 15-year-old girl in moderate condition with facial injuries.
The attacker, an Arab in his thirties from Hebron, was shot and killed by an IDF soldier from the Kfir Brigade, who fired five rounds at him. The terrorist was initially listed in critical condition but was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.
Channel 14’s military correspondent, Hillel Biton Rosen, reported on the soldier’s heroic actions: Staff Sergeant L., a fighter in the Nachshon Battalion who killed the terrorist at Gush Etzion Junction, saved the life of the critically injured girl. According to medical sources, immediately after the incident, he applied a tourniquet to the critically wounded victim’s leg.
Paramedics Moshe Benita and Haim Sharabi from Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, who arrived at the scene, said: “We saw a lot of commotion and a vehicle near a bus stop. Near the vehicle lay a 17-year-old girl who was fully conscious and suffering from serious injuries to her lower limbs. We provided her with initial medical treatment at the scene, including stopping bleeding, and evacuated her in an intensive care ambulance to the hospital in critical condition. Additional MDA teams provided medical treatment to another injured person, a 15-year-old girl in mild condition who suffered facial injuries.”