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Troops killed Palestinian who perpetrated 2024 ramming attack, police confirm
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Police confirm that members of the Yamam counterterror unit, alongside IDF troops and the Shin Bet, killed a Palestinian assailant who carried out a deadly car-ramming attack in May 2024.
On May 29, 2024, Abdel-Raouf Shatyeh rammed his vehicle into an IDF post just outside Nablus, killing two soldiers: Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel and Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj, both 20-year-old infantrymen in the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion.
After the attack, Shatyeh fled into Nablus and initially turned himself in, to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces. However, instead of being handed over to Israel, the suspect was freed from the PA’s custody.
During a raid this evening, Yamam officers closed in on a building in eastern Nablus where Shatyeh was holed up. After it emerged that he was armed, the troops opened fire on the building, and later, using a drone, identified that he had been killed, police say.
The IDF and Shin Bet say that they have been working to track down Shatyeh since he fled the scene of the attack in 2024.
In addition, several “accomplices” who were working with Shatyeh were detained by IDF soldiers this evening in Nablus, the military adds.
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