The American was killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday, hours after Israel deployed hundreds more soldiers to the occupied West Bank amid escalating tensions.
An American citizen was killed in the West Bank on Monday amid ongoing violence in the region, according to U.S. officials.
On Sunday, after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli brothers, a large group of settlers torched Palestinian homes and cars in the West Bank city of Hawara. One Palestinian was killed in those attacks and dozens were wounded, according to medics and the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israeli security forces cordon-off the site of a reported shooting attack, near Jericho in the occupied West Bank, February 27, 2023."We condemn the horrific killing of two Israeli brothers near Nablus, and the killing today of an Israeli near Jericho who we understand was also an American citizen," State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a briefing Monday."We express our deepest condolences to all of the victims' families and their loved ones." that a U.S.
The leader of Israel's opposition Labor Party called the rampage by settlers Sunday"a pogrom by armed militias," The Associated Press reported. Israeli security forces cordon-off the site of a reported shooting attack, near Jericho in the occupied West Bank, February 27, 2023.Sunday's violence began when a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two brothers from a nearby settlement — Yagel and Hillel Yaniv — while they were in the West Bank town of Hawara. The shooter fled the scene.
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