Dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged through a Palestinian town Sunday night after two Israeli settlers were killed by a Palestinian gunman earlier in the day. A 37-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli fire, Palestinian officials say.
through a Palestinian town and nearby villages Sunday night, burning homes and cars and killing a man.
Two other people were shot and wounded, one person was stabbed, and another was beaten with an iron bar, the Palestinian Red Crescent medical service said, according to The Associated Press. Almost 100 other Palestinians were being treated for tear gas inhalation, the news agency added.had dispatched several hundred more troops to the area, and that a manhunt was underway for the gunman who killed the Israeli settlers and the gunman who killed the Palestinian man.
“I look favorably on what happened in Hawara," Tzvika Foghel, a lawmaker from the ultranationalist Jewish Power party, said in an interview with IDF radio."I want to see every place where terrorists come out burning.”Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP - Getty Images “They were full of kindness,” Ya’akov told NBC News via telephone of brothers Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 19. “My wife was 50 meters from where they were killed. It could have happened to any one of us. It’s an easy place for a terror attack since it’s so easy to run away and find a hideout" in Hawara, he added.“I think that if the two that died would be alive, they would condemn these acts,” he said of the subsequent rampage.
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