West Bank07 September, 20262 min read
Israeli Forces Kill Suspect After Stabbing Near Usarin in Nablus Governorate
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Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man seriously wounded near Usarin in the West Bank. IDF killed the attacker after a hour-long manhunt following the stabbing.
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Stabbing Near Usarin
An Israeli settler was critically injured in a stabbing in the occupied West Bank near an illegal settlement near the village of Usarin in the Nablus governorate on Monday, and Israeli forces killed the suspect soon after the attack. Al Jazeera correspondent Laith Jaar said several Palestinian villages were in lockdown after the incident, while Israeli Army Radio reported the suspect was killed after he allegedly tried to stab soldiers.
“The incident took place at an illegal settlement near the village of Usarin in the Nablus governorate.”
Israeli forces launched a search operation after the suspect fled the scene in a vehicle, and Channel 12 reported the settler suffered several stab wounds and was taken to hospital in a helicopter with his condition said to be serious. Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened a “full-scale war” against the Palestinian Authority after the stabbing, saying “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the [military] to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war.”
Manhunt and Netanyahu
The Times of Israel said IDF troops shot dead the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli man at a farming outpost in the West Bank earlier on Monday, and it framed the response as a pledge that “no terrorist has a safe haven.” In the same live update, Netanyahu vowed, “We will continue to eliminate terrorists, pursue those who send them, and destroy the terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria,” using the biblical term for the West Bank.
Haaretz reported that a 20-year-old man was moderately to seriously wounded in the West Bank stabbing attack, with the perpetrator killed by Israeli forces after an hour-long manhunt. Ynetnews added that the IDF located the terrorist near his vehicle in the area of the village of Idhna, and said the attacker attempted to stab the soldiers before a company commander from the 411th Battalion opened fire and killed him.
Escalation and Wider Impact
Al Jazeera Net reported that Katz ordered the army to prepare for a 'large-scale war against terrorism' in the West Bank, and it said Israeli forces imposed a curfew and security cordon around surrounding villages near the operation east of Nablus. The Jerusalem Post quoted Netanyahu saying, “No terrorist can hide,” after the IDF killed the terrorist who wounded one person in a terror stabbing attack at Maoz Yehuda Farm near Kusra in the West Bank on Monday morning.
In that same Jerusalem Post account, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced he and Netanyahu directed the IDF to launch an "all-out war" against terrorism in the West Bank and the bodies that enable it, including “senior officials and mechanisms of the PA and the bodies associated with them.” The Jerusalem Post also reported that the IDF and Israel Police responded to the incident by imposing a blockade on the surrounding villages, while the military’s elite undercover Duvdevan Unit, Nahal Brigade, and Unit 636 were dispatched to search for the terrorist.