3 Palestinians arrested for role in deadly West Bank terror shooting

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The scene of a terror shooting attack on the West Bank's Route 465 on January 7, 2024. (Magen David Adom)
The scene of a terror shooting attack on the West Bank's Route 465 on January 7, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

Officers of police’s Yamam counter-terrorism unit arrested overnight three Palestinians suspected of involvement in a deadly terror shooting attack in the West Bank yesterday, officials say.

In a joint statement, police, Shin Bet, and IDF say the trio were detained some 15 hours after the attack on Route 465, near the settlement of Ateret.

Two of the suspects were detained in Ramallah, and the third was nabbed in the nearby Jalazone refugee camp, the statement says.

Officials say the three “linked themselves” to the attack in a preliminary questioning. They are now being interrogated by the Shin Bet.

Amar Mansour, a 33-year-old resident and father of two from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, was killed, and a 42-year-old Palestinian woman, a pharmacist at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, was seriously wounded in the attack.

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