[IsraelTimes] Yitzhak Zeiger, 57-year-old father of 3, slain while pumping gas near settlement of Eli, along with Uria Hartum, 16; gunman, named as PA cop, shot dead at scene by restaurateur
Two Israelis were killed when a Paleostinian terrorist shot up a gas station in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon before being shot and killed by the proprietor of a nearby business on leave from fighting in 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 Hamas with 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 ...
, the military and medics said.
The attack, the second deadly shooting at the spot outside the settlement of Eli since June, comes as security tensions around the West Bank have risen ahead of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, even as the military remains focused on fighting in Gaza and escalating skirmishes on the northern border.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said two men were found rubbed out at the gas station shortly after 5 p.m. one on the side of the road and one in a car.
The victims were named as Rabbi Yitzhak Zeiger, 57, a father of three and a resident of Shavei Shomron in the West Bank, and Uria Hartum, a 16-year-old high school student from the settlement of Dolev who had been hitching a ride with Zeiger.
Zeiger, a volunteer with paramedic and rescue services organizations, was filling the car with gasoline when he was shot and killed, though he attempted to return fire, according to local authorities.
Hartum was killed as he sat inside the car.
The Israel Defense Forces said the assailant, later identified as a Paleostinian Authority policeman, was rubbed out at the scene by the owner of a nearby hummus restaurant.
Aviad Gazbar, who said he had recently returned from reserve duty in the Gaza Strip, told media at the scene that he "heard shots" while visiting the hummus restaurant.
"I fired a bullet so that the terrorist would know I was here. I saw that he saw me, and he started charging towards me, I took him down and continued scanning," he added.
Images showed that the terrorist was armed with an assault rifle.
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