A resident reported gunfire from a black vehicle toward an Israeli car roughly 300 meters north of the Tapuah Junction. The suspect car made a U-turn at the junction and drove toward Ariel. Security forces are searching the area; no casualties have been reported so far.
Security forces have launched a manhunt for a black vehicle that fled toward Ariel after a suspected drive-by shooting was reported at 23:31 near the Tapuah Junction in northern Samaria. A resident told the Shomron Emergency Hotline that the vehicle fired toward an Israeli car about 300 meters north of the junction, then made a U-turn and drove south. No casualties have been reported, and no official confirmation has yet been issued by the military or police.
The 23:31 report is the latest in a fast-moving thread at Tapuah Junction this evening. The Zioneer first reported a suspected shooting at 23:20 (near Hawara, south of Nablus — an unrelated incident), then at 23:23 published the first Tapuah Junction report — an initial, unconfirmed claim that a "Palestinian gunman" opened fire on an Israeli vehicle and fled. That same minute, the desk reported a broader "large forces" search at the scene, and by 23:30 had framed it as a possible "rolling terror attack". What began as a single unverified channel report has in the space of minutes gathered corroboration from the civilian hotline and an active security response now described as a manhunt — though still lacking official confirmation from the IDF or police.
Tapuah Junction has a documented history of attacks against Israeli motorists, as The Zioneer has noted in past coverage of security incidents in the northern West Bank. Security forces routinely deploy patrols and roadblocks in the area. The motive and identity of the suspects remain unclear.
The nature of the incident remains unclassified — it is being treated as a suspected terror attack, but no official statement has been released. It is also unclear whether the 23:31 report describes a second vehicle or a correction to the initial account; the desk is tracking the security forces' response for clarification.
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