[IsraelTimes] Military says it arrested 2 men believed to have driven with assailant to bus stop outside Ariel settlement, where attacker was rubbed out after trying to stab people.
Israeli security forces on Sunday morning arrested the second suspected accomplice of a Paleostinian man who was rubbed out after an attempted stabbing attack outside the Ariel settlement on Friday, the military said.
The suspect was arrested in the Paleostinian village of Haris in the northern West Bank, not far from the site of the attempted stabbing, in the predawn hours of Sunday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said.
On Friday morning, the Paleostinian attacker — Amir Atef Rayan, 37, from Qarawat Bani Hassan — got out of a car at Gitai Avishar Junction outside Ariel in the northern West Bank, armed with a knife, and approached a bus stop, where civilians and soldiers were standing.
Troops at the scene opened fire, fatally wounding Rayan, who was pronounced dead in a nearby hospital.
The military immediately launched a manhunt for the other people in the car that had transported Rayan to the scene. One suspect was arrested on Friday afternoon.
Overnight, Israeli forces arrested the second suspected accomplice in Haris, whom the IDF said was apparently the driver of the car.
A knife that the Israeli military says was used in an attempted stabbing attack at the Gitai Avishar Junction in the northern West Bank on December 31, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)
The military said there were no further suspects on the loose.
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