Overview
- Police say a gunman opened fire at a gas station near Kokhav Yair and then shot at locations in Tsur Natan, Tsur Yitzhak and near the Sal'it settlement in a fast-moving attack on Sunday.
- The gunman, described as a man in his 20s from the Arab town of Taybeh who held Israeli citizenship, was shot dead by police after the shootings.
- Magen David Adom and police reported one man killed in Kokhav Yair and five people wounded, two of them critically, with initial emergency reports briefly listing six injured before figures were revised.
- Officers arrested a second suspect who is believed to have driven the attacker and who tried to stab officers with a broken bottle during his arrest; investigators are still determining motive and the accomplice's exact role.
- The incident prompted hours-long lockdowns for residents and schools, heightened security alerts and sharp concern because authorities first feared a coordinated cross‑border assault in an area already facing rising Israeli–West Bank tensions.