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Security forces arrest suspect in yesterday’s West Bank shooting attack

By Emanuel Fabian 8 May 2025, 8:32 am Edit

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

Overnight, Israeli security forces say they detained a Palestinian suspected of carrying out yesterday’s shooting attack near the Reihan checkpoint in the northern West Bank that seriously wounded two reservists.

Officers of the police’s elite Gideonim unit (Unit 33), alongside IDF troops, surrounded a home in the nearby village of Barta’a, following intelligence on the suspect’s whereabouts provided by the Shin Bet.

The suspect turned himself in to the officers, the police, IDF, and Shin Bet say in a joint statement.

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