Palestinian attacker opens fire at West Bank gas station, kills 4

By Isabel Debre, Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — A Palestinian attacker opened fire at a gas station near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday… ‘Now is the time for a military operation in Judea and Samaria,’ said Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, using the biblical term for the West Bank. From the scene of the attack, he demanded that the government launch ‘targeted assassinations from the air,’ ‘take down buildings,’ deport Palestinian assailants and impose the death penalty on terrorists… On Tuesday, the death toll from the raid rose to six when 48-year-old Amjad Abu Jaas succumbed to wounds… In the Palestinian town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man who they alleged threw a firebomb… The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man killed as 21-year-old Zakaria al-Zaoul.”

Context added by this archive

Three Palestinians named in a story about four Israelis killed: Amjad Abu Jaas, 48, Zakaria al-Zaoul, 21, and the attacker. The minister’s four demands are printed in his own words.

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"Palestinian attacker opens fire at West Bank gas station, kills 4," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 June 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-040. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-040

Elsewhere in the archive

Palestinian opens fire at West Bank gas stationThe Grand Rapids Press · 21 June 2023 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
Palestinian kills at least 4 people at West Bank gas stationLedger-Enquirer · 21 June 2023 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
Israel, Palestinians aim to curb violence as holiday nearsPittsburgh Post-Gazette · 20 March 2023 · the same newspaper
Israel begins withdrawal from Jenin refugee campPittsburgh Post-Gazette · 5 July 2023 · the same newspaper
A casualty in the war on journalismPittsburgh Post-Gazette · May 2022 · the same newspaper
Israel official’s site visit assailedNew Jersey Herald · 4 January 2023 · the same year
Visit to Jerusalem holy site stokes angerLos Angeles Times · 4 January 2023 · the same year
Israeli minister defies leadership with visit to Jerusalem flash pointThe Philadelphia Inquirer · 4 January 2023 · the same year

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