Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the shooting attack near Hebron, in which a 47-year-old police officer was killed yesterday and his wife and another nine-year-old child were injured, shortly before the start of Passover.
""This heinous murder of a man who traveled with his family to a Independence Day dinner is the result of incitement for which the Palestinian Authority is responsible," Netanyahu said.
Defense Minister Moshe Bogy Ya'alon said: "We will not rest or be silent until we lay our hands on whoever planned and carried out this attack." He noted that IDF forces, the Border Guard, and the General Security Service are continuing to hunt for the terrorist and his handlers. Ya'alon sent his condolences to the family of the police officer who was killed in the shooting, and wished a full recovery to the injured.
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Security forces are still conducting a manhunt to locate those responsible for the attack.
The attack occurred when a terrorist opened fire on Israeli vehicles near the Tarqumiya checkpoint, in the southern Hebron area. The father of the family, a police officer, was seriously injured and died from his wounds after resuscitation attempts by MDA teams. His wife, who was heavily pregnant, was moderately injured.
A child in another vehicle was slightly injured. The two were treated at the scene and evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for further treatment.
• The person killed in the shooting attack on the eve of the holiday at the Tarqumiya junction near Hebron is a 47-year-old police officer. His 28-year-old wife was seriously injured, and during the holiday she underwent medical treatment in the hospital where she is still hospitalized.
• Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, commented on yesterday's shooting attack in Hebron and said: "It has brought back to life the path of resistance. Anyone who thinks that the Palestinians in the West Bank can be tamed should know that it will be the center of our fighting in the future.".
• The condition of the 28-year-old woman, who was moderately injured in the shooting attack at the Tarqumiya junction near Hebron, and has since been hospitalized at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, is stable, after a bullet was removed from her body.
• During searches for the terrorists responsible for the shooting attack, a Palestinian suspect was arrested, but was released after a brief interrogation. No other suspects were arrested. At this time, according to the police, there was only one attacker at the scene.
• During the holiday, the nine-year-old boy, who was slightly injured in the shooting incident, was released home for the rest of the day, and in the evening returned to the hospital for further treatment and monitoring.
• An initial IDF investigation indicates that at least one armed terrorist approached the section of road on foot and, from a range of a few meters, fired automatically at the first vehicle that passed by. It also appears that the terrorist then ran to a nearby point, where he continued shooting at additional Israeli vehicles, until he escaped.
• Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch visited the widow of the police officer killed in the shooting attack last night this morning. "We must always remember who we are dealing with, those murderers, vile people, and we will bring them to justice.".
• Starting with the holiday, IDF forces will increase their operations in villages west of Hebron in an effort to locate the perpetrator of yesterday's shooting attacks in Hebron. The bulk of the operations are concentrated in the town of Idna, near the Tarqumiya checkpoint, where a police officer was killed yesterday.
