Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Friday, March 1, 2024
Halevi says hummus restaurant owner who killed terrorist ‘prevented an even greater disaster’
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (2nd-R) meets with Aviad Gazbar, the owner of a hummus restaurant who killed a Palestinian terrorist at the scene of a deadly shooting attack outside the settlement of Eli in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi visits the scene of the deadly shooting attack at a gas station in the West Bank, where the military says a security assessment was held with senior officers.
Halevi meets Aviad Gazbar, the owner of a hummus restaurant next to the gas station who fatally shot the Palestinian terrorist after he killed a rabbi and teenage hitchhiker. An IDF statement says Halevi praised Gazbar, who recently returned from reserve duty in Gaza, saying his “professional action… prevented an even greater disaster.”
