Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of 62 Palestinians and 11 civilians, as well as an Israeli police officer and a Ukrainian woman.
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 2/26/2023 at 4:19 PM, updated 2/26/2023 at 5:49 PM
Two young Israelis were shot dead in occupied North Bank on Sunday in what the Israeli government has dubbed a “Palestinian terrorist attack” on their car. The attack happened on the main street in Huwara, near Nablus, where an AFP photographer saw Israeli soldiers conducting searches.
It comes as a meeting opened in Jordan on Sunday between Palestinian and Israeli leaders to try to end the spiral of violence that has been seen since the beginning of the year after the government formed by Prime Minister Binyamin took office in late December Netanyahu (right) with far-right allies and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties.
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“Two Israelis were killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack,” read a joint statement by Mr Netanyahu and his Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir. “Our response to terrorism is to fight it with violence and strengthen our roots in our country,” the text adds.
The Israeli army said a “terrorist [avait] opened fire on an Israeli vehicle” and soldiers then cordoned off the area for search operations.
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Shomron Regional Council, which manages the Jewish settlements in the area, identified the two victims as two brothers, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, residents of the Har Bracha settlement near the site of the attack, aged 22 and 20 respectively.
In their press release, MM Netanyahu and Ben Gvir announce that a Committee of Ministers has voted in favor of a “legislative proposal giving a court the possibility to impose the death penalty on terrorists”.
Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of 62 Palestinians (including members of armed groups and civilians including minors) and 11 civilians (including three minors) and one Israeli police officer, as well as a Ukrainian, according to an AFP tally obtained from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.
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