Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 21 June 2023
CP-2023-040
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, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-040. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-040
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