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2022-05-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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First Elad victim drove terrorists to city, officials say, as pair elude manhunt
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[IsraelTimes] Oren Ben Yiftah reportedly did not know two were in Israel illegally or had plans to attack people; police believe suspects still in Elad area inside Israel
The Paleostinian gunnies who carried out a deadly knife and axe attack in Elad Thursday night were transported from the West Bank barrier to the Israeli city by one of their three victims, security officials said Friday, as the pair remained on the lam despite a massive manhunt for them.
Oren Ben Yiftah, a 35-year-old driver from Lod, is thought to have brought As’ad Yusef As’ad al-Rifa’i, 19, and Subhi Emad Subhi Abu Shqeir, 20, from the West Bank security barrier, where they are believed to have sneaked into Israel, to Elad.
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Upon arriving, according to a statement from a security agency on condition of anonymity, the two attacked Ben Yiftah, killing him. From there, they headed up Ibn Gvirol street where they killed Elad residents Yonatan Havakuk and Boaz Gol. All three victims were fathers in their 30s or 40s who left behind a combined 16 children.
The two are thought to have fled in a car and police believe they are still inside Israel.
The revelation that Ben Yiftah is suspected of aiding the two was barred from publication by police until Friday evening, for unclear reasons. Many other details of the investigation remain under a court-imposed gag order.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, Ben Yiftah did not know the pair were in Israel illegally. He had transported them at least 10 times in the past to work in the ultra-Orthodox city, and was unaware of their attack plans.
Though technically illegal, a number of Israeli drivers work transporting Paleostinian day laborers who sneak in from the West Bank to job sites around the country.
Authorities believe al-Rifa’i and Abu Shqeir had worked in Elad before and were familiar with the area. The suspects had no history of terror activity or affiliation with terror groups, Army Radio reported.
Breaches in the West Bank security barrier used by workers have been utilized by gunnies responsible for a number of attacks inside Israel in recent weeks, leading to vows from defense officials that the gaps will be repaired and the wall better guarded. Several of the attackers have originated in the northern West Bank, leading the army to concentrate efforts near there.
On Friday, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai ordered law enforcement to begin a nationwide operation against Paleostinians who illegally enter Israel from the West Bank, and those who assist them. Several Paleostinians in the country illegally were arrested Friday, police said. Also detained was the father of Abu Shqeir, also named Emad Subhi Abu Shqeir, who was apprehended by Israeli officers while working inside Israel, the Paleostinian Prisoners Information Office reported.
The arrests came as police and military deployed widely across Israel and the West Bank to find the two terror suspects, both from the village Rumana outside Jenin in the northern West Bank.
"We will get our hands on the gunnies and their supportive environment, and they will pay the price," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said after huddling with security bigshots late Thursday.
Authorities said the attackers fled in a vehicle, but have concentrated their search around Elad, apparently believing that the two did not cross back into the West Bank.
"Our working assumption is that they are in the Elad area, so there are hundreds of security forces personnel who are there and searching," Israel Police central district commander Avi Bitton said.
Elad, a town of some 50,000 mostly ultra-Orthodox residents east of Tel Aviv, sits three kilometers (two miles) from the Green Line dividing Israel and the West Bank.
Police were also searching for the two in the nearby city of Rosh Ha’ayin, the city said in a statement.
"Security forces and police are deployed throughout the city," read a message from the municipality.
Searches were taking place in Rantis, a Paleostinian town just on the other side of the West Bank security barrier, and in industrial zones in the area, where the two could be hiding in warehouses or factory emptied of people for the weekend, Haaretz reported.
Al-Rifa’i’s father told Paleostinian media that he last saw his son two days ago and had not heard from him since.
"All I know is that my son went to go work with his friend Subhi in Ramallah. That’s it, nothing more," Yusef al-Rifa’i said. "No one has told us anything — not the Jews, not the Paleostinian Authority."
He said his son worked in construction in Israel and occasionally helped out with Abu Shqeir’s electrical business.
In the wake of the attack, Israeli security officials extended until Sunday the closure of the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
— which was put in place on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of Memorial Day and Independence Day, and had been supposed to end overnight Thursday-Friday.
Thursday’s attack followed a wave of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank in recent weeks, and repeated threats by Paleostinian terror groups over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
According to eyewitnesses, the two gunnies attacked several people with an axe and a knife on Thursday evening at a central park and a nearby road in the largely ultra-Orthodox city. 
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