A curfew was imposed on the village of Beit Furik following a stabbing attack, according to security correspondent Yair Goldblatt. The curfew was announced shortly after the incident. Details of the attack were not immediately available.
A curfew has been imposed on the village of Beit Furik following a stabbing attack Thursday afternoon, according to security correspondent Yair Goldblatt. The announcement came shortly after the incident, which occurred at 12:15 Jerusalem at the Derech Avraham farm near Itamar in Samaria. The IDF confirmed that two Palestinian terrorists stabbed an Israeli civilian in the chest; the victim, a 51-year-old man, was evacuated by helicopter to a hospital in serious condition. The two assailants were neutralized at the scene, and a closure was imposed on Beit Furik, where a fire that preceded the attack was set by Palestinians from the village, the IDF said.
The Zioneer's thread tracked the attack from initial reports. At 12:24 Jerusalem, rescue services reported a stabbing near Alon Moreh with one seriously wounded and one attacker neutralized. Minutes later, ynet updated the count to two attackers neutralized. The IDF then confirmed the stabbing report, and by 12:24 Jerusalem, the military stated that the fire near the farm was arson by Palestinians from Beit Furik and that the two attackers had been eliminated. The curfew on Beit Furik was reported as a standard security measure to prevent further violence and facilitate investigations.
As The Zioneer reported on July 7, Beit Furik has been the site of prior security incidents, including a stone-throwing attack on Border Police officers that led to one suspect being detained. The wider context includes a separate incident on Thursday evening, when Israeli security forces arrested a suspect in an attempted vehicular attack near Beit Omar, with no injuries reported.
It remains unclear whether the shots that neutralized the attackers were fired by IDF soldiers or the farm's security coordinator, as the IDF has not specified. The condition of the two assailants, reported as critical, has not been updated.
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