IDF names attacker in West Bank terror shooting, maps home for demolition

The Israeli army names the Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a deadly terror attack in the northern West Bank on Sunday in which two Israelis were killed and a third injured, identifying him as Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alowa.

Members of Na’alowa’s family have been arrested and are being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service to determine if they assisted him in the attack or in his escape from the scene, the army says.

“IDF troops went to the terrorist’s home in the village of Shuweika in the Menashe regional brigade’s jurisdiction, measured his home [ahead of eventual demolition] and conducted interrogations and arrests of people suspected of assisting the terrorist,” the army says.

On Sunday morning, Na’alowa entered the offices of the Alon Group in the Barkan Industrial Park, near the settlement-city of Ariel. Inside, he shot and killed Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hajbi, 35, and moderately injured a second female victim, whom he shot in the stomach.

Na’alowa fled the scene of the attack, prompting a large-scale manhunt, in which IDF troops have set up road closures and checkpoints throughout the area.

“IDF and Shin Bet troops will continue to work to catch the terrorist and to preserve the security of the region’s residents, with an increased operational and intelligence effort,” the army says.

— Judah Ari Gross

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