Overview
- Police and emergency services responded to shootings in Kokhav Ya'ir, Tzur Yitzhak and Tzur Natan that left one man dead and five people wounded, two of them in serious condition.
- Officers said they located a vehicle linked to the incidents and shot dead a suspected assailant at the scene while security forces deployed in the area.
- The army says it is searching for a second suspected attacker and police have kept checkpoints and units in the nearby communities as the hunt continues.
- National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir declared that any attacker captured alive would face execution under a law passed in March that targets perpetrators of deadly anti‑Israeli attacks.
- The attacks occurred in towns near the occupied West Bank, highlighting security risks in settlement‑adjacent communities and raising questions about short‑term patrols, arrests and legal responses to further violence.