Images from the streets of Hawara showed the destruction, with the charred grey skeletons of dozens of cars near to two-story buildings with their windows smashed. One video shared widely on social media Sunday and geolocated by NBC News appeared to show a crowd of Israeli settlers praying while stood in front of a burning building.
A 37-year-old Palestinian man, Sameh Hamdallah Mahmoud Aqtash, was shot and killed by Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Two other people were shot and wounded, one person was stabbed, and another was beaten with an iron bar, the Palestinian Red Crescent medical service said, according to the Associated Press. Almost 100 other Palestinians were being treated for tear gas inhalation, the news agency added.
Israeli’s military said Monday it had dispatched several hundred more troops to the area, and that a manhunt was underway for the gunman who killed the Israeli settlers and the gunman who killed the Palestinian man. Ten Israelis were arrested after the Hawara rampage, the military said.
The settlers killed on Sunday were named as brothers Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 21, who the Israel Defense Forces confirmed was an IDF soldier enrolled in a yeshiva program after serving in the navy — and his brother, Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 19, from the settlement of Har Bracha.
“A terrible tragedy occurred today,” Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of the brother’s killings in a video statement posted to Twitter Sunday, adding that Israeli soldiers were in pursuit of the gunman.
“May God avenge them,” Netanyahu said. He added that: “I ask even when the blood is boiling, not to take the law in one’s hands.”
Israel’s former defense minister, Benny Gantz, said the revenge attacks in Hawara “should shame every person and every Jew in particular.”
“This is not our way,” Gantz tweeted Sunday, urging the country’s leaders to publicly call for calm.
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