Security forces concluded a house-to-house search in the Samaria community of Beit Aryeh without locating the two masked suspects reported early Saturday morning. Residents were confined to safe rooms for about six hours. The search shifted from wide-area sweeps to yard-by-yard checks at dawn, then ended with no arrests, according to Israeli media reports.
Security forces have ended the manhunt in Beit Aryeh, a community in Samaria, without locating the two masked suspects that triggered an infiltration alert at 04:29 Saturday morning, according to Israeli media. The search began after a resident reported seeing two masked individuals late Friday night, prompting an infiltration alert and an instruction for all residents to shelter in place. Forces initially conducted wide-area sweeps, then shifted to yard-by-yard and finally house-to-house searches starting around dawn, as reported by N12's Almog Boker. By 10:39, a resident told media that forces had not found any suspects and had wrapped up the searches. The alert and lockdown lasted about six hours. The nature of the threat — whether the suspects were armed or belonged to a terrorist group — has not been specified by official sources. The Zioneer previously reported the initial infiltration alert at 04:30 and the evolving lockdown in a series of updates throughout the morning.
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