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In the shadow of a conflict that has long tested the limits of human endurance and political illusion, assailants launched several shooting attacks close to the Israel's Judea and Samaria on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding five others, according to Israel’s rescue services.
Israel’s police swiftly killed one jihad terrorist.
Large numbers of soldiers fanned out across the area, searching on foot and from the air for further threats. The scattered locations of the shootings initially suggested a coordinated assault, the kind of nightmare scenario that has haunted these border communities since the horrors of October 7.
Rescue services from Magen David Adom reported the first incident at a gas station near the town of Kokhav Yair, on the Israeli side of the boundary, shortly after 10:30 a.m. Further attacks followed in quick succession: in Tsur Natan, Tsur Yitzhak, and near the settlement of Sal'it inside the West Bank itself.
The perpetrator, police later revealed, was not the imported jihadist many had instinctively feared, but a Palestinian citizen jihadi living in Israel from the nearby Arab town of Taybeh.
Local residents were ordered to remain indoors; children were held in lockdown at their schools. “Since Oct. 7, the scenario we were expecting was terrorist crossing into our towns from over the boundary,” said Oshrit Gani Gonen, the regional council head for the affected area. “I don't think that anyone imagined that we would discover the attackers were Israeli citizens.”
Here, then, is the bitter and recurring truth of this conflict: even the most vigilant defenses against the enemy without cannot fully guard against the enemy within. What was meant to be a clear frontier of threat has once again revealed itself as something more porous and more treacherous, a reminder that the ideologies which fuel this violence do not always respect the neat lines drawn on maps, nor the assumptions of those who would prefer to see it as a simple territorial dispute.
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Rescue services from Magen David Adom reported the first incident at a gas station near the town of Kokhav Yair, on the Israeli side of the boundary, shortly after 10:30 a.m. Further attacks followed in quick succession: in Tsur Natan, Tsur Yitzhak, and near the settlement of Sal'it inside the West Bank itself.
The perpetrator, police later revealed, was not the imported jihadist many had instinctively feared, but a Palestinian citizen jihadi living in Israel from the nearby Arab town of Taybeh.
Local residents were ordered to remain indoors; children were held in lockdown at their schools. “Since Oct. 7, the scenario we were expecting was terrorist crossing into our towns from over the boundary,” said Oshrit Gani Gonen, the regional council head for the affected area. “I don't think that anyone imagined that we would discover the attackers were Israeli citizens.”
Here, then, is the bitter and recurring truth of this conflict: even the most vigilant defenses against the enemy without cannot fully guard against the enemy within. What was meant to be a clear frontier of threat has once again revealed itself as something more porous and more treacherous, a reminder that the ideologies which fuel this violence do not always respect the neat lines drawn on maps, nor the assumptions of those who would prefer to see it as a simple territorial dispute.
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