Dumb Israeli Fools reconnect Gaza to electricity

 

Gaza's electricity company began connecting cables on Salah al-Din Street in the Deir al-Balah area, for the first time since the outbreak of the war.

After the infrastructure works are completed, the water desalination and sewage treatment facility will be operated directly from the Israeli electricity grid. The order to connect was given by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who explained that it was a move to provide "a response to basic humanitarian needs."

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) noted that the operation of the water desalination facility is being carried out with the approval of the political echelon and derives from humanitarian considerations to prevent pollution and the outbreak of diseases in the Strip.

An official IDF statement on the process claimed: "The eyes of the world, and certainly the eyes of the United States, were focused on the question of how we would handle the humanitarian and civilian aspects of the operation in Rafah. The purpose of the power hookup is to operate a water desalination plant that will provide drinking water to the area where most of the Gaza population now resides. This is water for sanitation and disease prevention - which could endanger both our soldiers and our hostages."

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded: "We've lost our minds completely. With our own hands, we are rehabilitating Gaza, before disarmament, and mainly the hospitals, which are the centers for terrorism. Mr. Prime Minister, stop this foolishness. This time, it won't be possible to say that we didn't know, like with the release of the terror commander in Shifa yesterday."

Member of Knesset Gideon Sa'ar responded: "It will be interesting to see on whom the responsibility will be placed this time. A government of fools with two left hands."

MK Avigdor Liberman attacked: "The government of folly. After the release of the senior terrorist, the new Dr. Mengele, the director of Shifa Hospital, the government continues in the same direction."

"The infrastructure work in Gaza ahead of the expected connection to Israeli electricity are an even greater folly," Liberman continued. "The decision that must be made today is a complete disconnection between Israel and the Gaza Strip. No electricity, no water, no fuels, and no goods - a complete disconnection."

So Where is the $100 Million the "gedoilim Collected?' Rav Zilberstein To Kollel Members: “There Are No Funds To Pay You”

I don't get it! What happened to the money? What happened to "Adopt a Kollel" Rav Zilberstein's Kollel was adopted by a New York shul, where is the beef?

I suspect fraud!! 

And what's $100 million? The Zionist Government last year alone gave Chareidie Mosdos HaTorah over $325 million, so are they coming back to schnor in a half year? 

Why isn't there a vaad to oversee where the money is going?

 Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein, who serves as the Rosh Kollel of Beis Dovid in the city of Holon, was forced to inform his kollel members that he can no longer pay them a monthly stipend.

The step follows the revocation of funds to yeshivos and kollelim in accordance with the decision of Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and the Supreme Court.

HaRav Zilberstein wrote in the letter that the “kupas hakollel” is empty…and whoever remains in Kollel Beis Dovid should know that unfortunately there are no funds for stipends. And Hashem Yisbarach should do good with those who show goodness to talmidei chachamim.”

Eda Charedi Protesters totally Unhinged Smash Charedi MKs Cars, Heckle Them

 

Towards the end of the demonstration against IDF conscription organized on Sunday by the Eda Charedis and soon after Rav Sternbuch riled them up,, the protests turned violent, as the demonstrators vented their fury on charedi MKs who they felt were responsible for the current draft law which will enable the conscription of thousands of charedi youths.

Housing minister Yitzchak Goldknopf was the first to suffer the consequences of the anti-government demonstrations, as his car was significantly damaged by rocks and other items thrown at it, as protesters shouted “Be ashamed of yourself”

זה מה שקורה כשיש אכיפה בררנית. רכבו של השר לשעבר ליצמן נרגם באבנים. pic.twitter.com/YUIRqdb47g

— Yossi Eli (@Yossi_eli) June 30, 2024

 Police said that violent disturbances had broken out after the demonstration. Five people were arrested, two for attacking police and three for throwing projectiles and endangering others.

“Police forces responded to a protest which took place Sunday night, mainly in Sarei Yisrael and Malchei Yisrael streets,” a police statement read. “The protest caused violent disturbances including throwing stones and objects at police and at public representatives passing by, burning items in the road as well as garbage cans in order to block streets and disturbance of the peace.

“After police announced that the troublemakers should leave and they continued to disturb the peace- police used elements to disperse the crowd and restore order.”

Mr. Cohen

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The Israeli Chareidim inflicted this situation on themselves by refusing all compromises.
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They could have made a compromise where only non-learning Chareidim were drafted.
But they refused ALL compromises, so now ALL Chareidim can be drafted.
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They could have made a compromise where Chareidim perform: food services, Bikur Cholim, paramedic duties, supply distribution, and computer security.
But they refused all compromises, so now Chareidim can be drafted into combat.
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They could have made a compromise where Chareidim serve in their own units.
But they refused all compromises, so now Chareidim will serve with secular soldiers.
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If I remember correctly, tractate Megillah teaches that a man should always be
flexible, like a reed, not inflexible like a cedar.

Mother of Israeli hostage Noa Argamani dies weeks after daughter’s rescue

 

The mother of Noa Argamani, the Israeli hostage who became a symbol of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, has died of brain cancer just over three weeks after her daughter was rescued from the Gaza Strip.

The Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv confirmed in a statement Tuesday that Liora Argamani had died “after a long battle with cancer.”

The hospital said she “spent her final days alongside her daughter Noa, who returned from captivity, and her close family.”

“We convey the family’s request to respect their privacy during these difficult times,” the statement said.

Noa Argamani, 26, from Be’er Sheva, was at the Nova music festival in southern Israel when she was seized by Palestinian fighters, who took her away on a motorcycle in an abduction captured on video. On June 8, she was one of four hostages rescued by the Israeli Defense Forces in a daytime raid on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp in which scores of Palestinians were killed.

Liora Argamani had appealed for her daughter’s release, pleading that she did not have long left to live and wanted to see her again.

“I wish for the chance to see my Noa, at home. I call upon President Biden and the Red Cross to bring back my Noa as soon as possible so that I get the chance to see her,” she said in a video released in November.

“Noa,” she added, “if I don’t get to see you, please know that I love you so much. Please know we did everything we could to get you released. The whole world loves you.”

Images of Argamani were seen across the world after the 10-second video was circulated showing her screaming as she was carried away on the back of the motorcycle.

Her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, was also abducted and is believed to still be in Gaza.

In a video released Saturday, Argamani said she wanted to remind the world that around 120 mostly Israeli hostages were still being held in Gaza.

“Although I’m home now, we can’t forget about the hostages who are still in Hamas captivity, and we must do everything possible to bring them back home,” she said.

NBC News uncovered information in December suggesting that Argamani was most likely abducted not by Hamas but by Gazans who swept into Israel hours after the initial attack.

Has Israel’s Security Apparatus Learned Nothing from Oct. 7?

Hostages being moved inside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

 If Mohammed Abu Salmiya hadn’t filmed a couple of hate-filled videos upon his triumphant return to Gaza on Monday morning, the Shifa Hospital director’s release from Israeli incarceration would have remained under the radar.

But Abu Salmiya, one of some 50 Palestinian detainees let out of the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel and whisked back to the terrorist enclave from whence they came, was proud to highlight his ordeal.

It’s lucky he did. Otherwise, the fact that he’s now back in the business of using his illustrious license and position to store weapons and abuse hostages would have escaped notice—not only of the Israeli public, but of the very government that’s supposed to have learned a lesson or two on and since Oct. 7.

In his clips, Abu Salmiya failed to mention his own key role in Hamas’s atrocities, which involved aiding and abetting the perpetrators of the massacre and mass abductions. This isn’t mere speculation; all evidence of Shifa operations is fully documented, with footage, photos and Israel Security Agency Interrogations galore.

Jonathan Kaye, millionaire banker accused of slugging woman at Brooklyn Pride event charged with assault Though there is video that she slugged him first!

 

When I saw the edited video circulating, I knew there was more to this https://t.co/Y13pNd6nsu

— Sarah Nadav שרה נדב🎗️ (@sarahnadav) July 2, 2024

 The millionaire investment banker who allegedly slugged a woman in the face at a Brooklyn Pride event last month turned himself in to cops on Monday.

Jonathan Kaye, 52, faces two counts each of assault and menacing in the third degree, misdemeanors, and one count of second-degree harassment, a violation, over the caught-on-camera attack that sent the victim crashing down on a Park Slope street back on June 8, the NYPD said.

His surrender came after footage, that is now proven to have been tampered with, blew up online and leaflets with photos of him were plastered on utility poles throughout the ritzy Park Slope neighborhood where he lives with his family in a $4 million, four-bedroom townhouse.

Ben-Gvir, Cabinet Ministers Demand Shin Bet Chief’s Head for Releasing Shifa’s Hostages Warden

 

The nation was shocked yesterday after reports came out that Israel released dozens of Gazans on Monday, including the director of Shifa Hospital Mohammad Abu Salmiya.

According to the IDF and the security establishment, Shifa Hospital was used for years as a “terrorist infrastructure,” and Abu Salmiya was in control of Israeli hostages who had been brought there on October 7.

By the way, Kan 11 revealed on Monday that in recent months Gazan detainees have been returned to Gaza by the security establishment, under the radar and quietly, supposedly due to a shortage of prison space in Israel.

Government ministers were furious after Abu Salmiya’s release had been announced, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stated on the cabinet’s WhatsApp group:

“It’s time to send the head of the Shin Bet home, he is doing whatever he wants. He conducts an independent policy and in the cabinet debates, he has become the terrorist’s prison conditions advocate. [DM Yoav] Gallant is with him completely. They ignore the cabinet and the government.”

About three weeks ago, the state informed the High Court that by the end of June, all the detainees held at the Sde Yemen detention facility would be evacuated and that they would be transferred to other prisons in Israel or returned to the Strip.

According to a notice submitted by the state to the High Court, as of Sunday, there were 94 detainees out of approximately 140 in the facility who had been locked up there recently. According to the state’s announcement, 46 detainees were moved to Ofer prison last week as part of the efforts to evacuate the prison facility, and the rest remained as of Sunday in Sde Yemen.

At the same time, last week a new group of 45 detainees from the fighting in the Gaza Strip arrived at Sde Yemen and they are now being interrogated and taken in at the facility. Despite the state’s previous commitment to the High Court, the facility has not yet been closed.

Turkish Artist Talks About Her Conversion to Frum Judaism

 

More cops like this, please. Stop tolerating bullcrap

 

More cops like this, please. Stop tolerating bullsht. pic.twitter.com/1IpiD08oqQ

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) June 30, 2024

“Those connected to Islamist Ideology must be stripped of their Nationality and expelled" ... Le Pen

 

“Those connected to Islamist Ideology must be stripped of their Nationality and expelled. The French who adopt the Ideology of the Enemy must be punished. Radical Mosques will be shut down…and the Muslim Brotherhood will be dissolved…” -Marine Le Pen pic.twitter.com/rqGJTDZi0Z

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) July 1, 2024

12-year old Jewish British boy constantly subjected to brutal antisemitism questioned by counterterrorism police for saying he wants Hamas wiped out

 

12-year old Jewish British boy questioned by counterterrorism police for saying he wants Hamas wiped out when a teacher asked him if any news was upsetting him. He had been subjected to antisemitic abuse at school.
Unreal. pic.twitter.com/IGXF0etE1t

— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) July 2, 2024

Red Cross in 1944: “We found no trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners in Auschwitz”

 

Red Cross in 1944: “We found no trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners in Auschwitz” 👇

Red Cross in 2024: “We found no evidence of weapons or hostages being kept in hospitals in Gaza” pic.twitter.com/IoWaqnxINt

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 1, 2024

If Your Rebbe or Rosh Yeshivah is a "Baal Michlokas" It Is Prohibited to Honor Him in anyway!

 

in Hebrew... Harav Ben Zion Sneh

Rebbetzin Koshlevski whose Husband was 88 When He had his first Baby ..Interviewed!

 

Rosh Yeshiva says that the Protestors Against the Draft are really "Chilonim Dressed as Chareidim" And they have no "Kapara" "massive Chillul Hashem"

 

ראש ישיבת אשרי האיש: המפגינים הינם חילונים בלבוש חרדי

Supreme Court affirms absolute immunity for official acts in Trump case

 

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump enjoys absolute immunity from prosecution for “official acts” during his presidency — without saying whether his alleged 2020 election subversion falls under that. 

The nation’s top court instead left it up to the lower courts to sort out what constitutes an “official act” by a sitting president — and whether that applies in the 2020 election subversion case.

In a 6 to 3 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the panel stressed that the “president is not above the law,” and that “not everything the President does is official.” All three liberal justices dissented.

The high court’s ruling vacated an earlier decision by a lower court judge rejecting the immunity theory and cleared the way for more appeals by the former president that could set the trial schedule back months or years, if it ever happens.

Ezra Friedlander's Turkey refuses to let Israeli flight evacuate, refuel after emergency landing:

 

Ezra Friedlander who represented Turkey as well as other antisemitic countries, and received thousands of Benjamins from them, could not resolve this emergency and it could be that he wasn't even contacted as no one had confidence in him. 

Turkish officials Sunday allegedly refused to let an Israeli flight evacuate or refuel after it made an emergency landing in Antalya because of a medical crisis onboard, Israeli media reported.

El Al Flt. LY5102 was flying directly from Warsaw, Poland, to Tel Aviv in Israel in the morning when the airline said the plane had to land at Turkey’s Antalya International airport after a passenger fell ill, the Jerusalem Post said.

“After consulting with the doctor who treated the passenger on the plane, it was decided that it should land urgently in order to evacuate the passenger to the hospital as soon as possible,” El Al said in a statement.

Although the flight crew initially received permission to de-board and refuel, Turkish officials then delayed the decision, claiming permits were required to fuel the plane, Israeli broadcaster KAN reported.

After waiting, the flight crew was informed that they would not be allowed to do either, forcing the plane to fly off to Greece’s Rhodes airport to refuel, according to Israel’s Army Radio.

Flt. LY5102 then took off from Antalya at 6:18 p.m. local time, arriving in Greece less than 40 minutes later, according to flight tracking site Flight Aware.

The status of the ill passenger remained unclear, and officials did not say if the passenger was allowed to get medical treatment while in Turkey.

Antalya International Airport officials did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

All direct flights between Turkey and Israel have been canceled since the start of the Israel-Hamas war after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

Turkey has remained one of Israel’s biggest critics over the war, with its goverment announcing in May that all exports and imports from Israel would be halted after the Israel Defense Force’s advancement into Rafah.

No one tried contacting Ezra Friedlander for a comment! 

Native NYer living in Israel warns Jews to ‘get the hell out’ of US now ‘You are no longer safe’

 

Ari Fuld הי"ד

A former New Yorker whose brother was stabbed to death by a Palestinian in the West Bank is begging his Jewish brethren to “wake up” and ditch the land of bagels and lox in favor of the land of milk and honey.

Queens native Hillel Fuld, who moved to Israel at 15, believes Israel is the safest place for Jews — as antisemitic crimes soar in the US.

“Jews, get out now. Get the hell out while you still can,” Fuld warned in an interview with The Post.

The 45-year-old married father of five who lives between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem called the recent spate of violent attacks in his native New York and around the US “heartbreaking” — and labeled last week’s Los Angeles attack at an anti-Israel rally a “legitimate modern-day pogrom.”

“Read the writing on the wall,” pleaded Fuld, whose older brother, Ari, 45, was stabbed to death near his home in Efrat by a 17-year-old Palestinian.

“Nobody has to lecture me on terrorism — I know it.”

He added: “You are no longer safe on the streets of New York or Los Angeles.”

The latest statistics are grim — as antisemitic hate crimes are up 45% in 2024, according to NYPD data obtained by The Post in April — and the emboldened nature of recent attacks, many captured on shocking video, raise more alarm.  

Earlier this month, 24-year-old Anas Saleh commandeered a packed rush-hour subway train, demanding that “Zionists” identify themselves, cops said. Survivors of the Oct. 7 attack were trapped inside a downtown Manhattan memorial and having panic attacks in lockdown as a mob outside raged, chanting, “Long live the intifada,” a known call to violence.

“This is literally 1930s Europe,” he said of the shocking subway incident. “It’s scary this could happen in New York.”

The tech guru with a massive social media presence claimed he’s not being “alarmist” when he draws parallels between what he hears about in his native New York City with the dangerous climate his Auschwitz survivor grandmother experienced as a youngster.

Those whose strategy is wait-and-see are in “denial,” said Fuld, noting the German Jews of the 1930s.

“We always say, ‘But we’re the most German people,’” he said, invoking a common refrain about the German Jews who didn’t think the Holocaust – and systematic slaughter of six million Jews – could befall humanity. 

Israel Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, told The Post that “obviously” Jews are safer in Israel than the US, especially after multiple US university presidents failed to condemn and control raging antisemitism on their campuses. American Jews must start to consider an exit strategy, he stressed.

“One of the options — and it’s an important option — is a return to the Jewish homeland,” Chikli said.

More than 700 Jews around the world moved to Israel, or made “aliyah,” since the Oct. 7 attacks, according to an Israeli nonprofit.

Fuld insisted he’s not meshugana, conceding that Israel has its problems, especially dealing with the massive security failure on Oct. 7. But the techie stressed that the population — and those charged to protect it, namely the IDF — will always have your back. 

In Israel, he said, they know who the enemy is, whereas in New York, they’re masked — literally — referring to the face coverings so many antisemites have hidden behind.

Fuld admitted to hiding his yarmulke with a hat while visiting Times Square recently with his wife and five kids, ages 13 to 19.

“It’s just not worth the risk,” he said. “And that’s tragic.” 

Fuld admitted that American Jews pushed back against his haunting harbingers, saying “the world is too civilized to let it happen again,” that “America is not Germany” and that “if we run away, they win,” he recalled of the skepticism.

But his assessment of the escalating chaos isn’t brimming with optimism.

“We know what’s about to happen – and it’s going to happen fast. The genie is out of the bottle,” he said. “Antisemitism will only get worse and worse. Open a history book.

“I would love nothing more than to be wrong,” he said somberly. “But I don’t think I am.”

Hillel Fuld 

Jill Biden’s delusional if she believes she can save her husband, the country after debate debacle

 

In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s debate debacle, there is one constant: Dr. Jill’s delusional self-belief that she can save the day. 

Under the thrall of her Rasputin-like adviser Anthony Bernal, the first lady is acting as if she is the candidate — at the expense of her husband and the country. 

She is the keeper of Biden delusions.

“Joe, you did such a great job,” she shrieked after commandeering the microphone at the debate after-party in Atlanta, as her downcast husband stood on stage gaping at her uncomprehendingly.

“You answered every question!” she gushed in a gratingly patronizing tone, like a nursery schoolteacher who hates kids. 

The whole world knew he did a terrible job. Even Joe knew. 

But that’s the problem with habitual lying. It swallows you in delusion eventually. 

You could see the emergence of Jill’s rival court in recent months as Joe faded and she embarked on a frenetic round of solo campaigning, always with Bernal, whom she calls her “work husband.”

Bernal was by her side when she swanned into Hunter’s gun trial in Wilmington in her finest designer threads last month to project presidential power on the yokels in the jury. 

You can see how she depends on Bernal by the knowing glances they exchange when Joe is going off the rails, as he did at Waffle House where they dragged him after the debate when he should have been in bed. 

As Joe babbled to random customers, Bernal turned to look at Jill and raised both eyebrows in an expression of alarm. 

Debate takeaways for Israel

 

by Caroline Glick

There was nothing remotely surprising about U.S. President Joe Biden’s performance at the presidential debate in Atlanta on Thursday night. The doddering, muttering, angry and seemingly confused man staring emptily, with mouth agape who stood on the CNN debate stage was the same man who has shown up before the cameras nearly every day since Biden was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021.

The Democratic commentators on CNN and the other Democratic Party-aligned media could have pretended that there was nothing off about Biden’s performance. They have been doing that for the past three-and-a-half years. The question is why they chose to respond to the debate by unanimously panning his performance. Why did every single CNN commentator insist that Biden cannot continue as the Democratic candidate for president?

The second question is: What does this mean for Israel?

On the first question, it has been clear from the outset that American voters like neither former President Donald Trump nor Biden. The race has always hinged on who it’s about. Would it be a referendum on Trump or Biden? If it is a referendum on Biden, then Trump wins and vice-versa. Trump was leading going into the debate because until Thursday night, Biden’s efforts to make the race a referendum on Trump had come up short.

The commentators’ immediate condemnation of the president’s performance and the widespread reports of “panic” among the Democratic Party leadership from the first moments of the debate made clear that the party’s leadership decided that the race was indeed a referendum on Biden. If he is the candidate on the ballot in November, then Trump will be the next president.

Since the Democrats don’t want that, having made the race a referendum on Biden, the only move left is for Biden to be forced to step aside and for someone else to be selected as the party’s nominee at the Democratic convention in Chicago in late August.

Whether Biden’s replacement is former first lady Michelle Obama, California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, the nominee will immediately become the hands-down favorite to win in November. Untainted by the president’s baggage as an incumbent, his replacement will be able to make the race a referendum on Trump, and he or she will win.

This brings us to the second question. What difference will this make for Israel?

And how would a different Democratic president treat Israel?

Protestors against the Draft Nearly Kill the Gerer MK Goldknopf but not before the Big Tzaddik R' Moshe Sternbuch Provokes the Crowd into a Frenzy

 Chareidim eating their own like the fish in the sea! It seems that Goldknopf is not extreme enough for them, so they nearly lynched him!

I think that Ger will not stand idly by while one of their own is being beaten, they will soon mobilize and beat the crap out of Peleg, just you watch! 

All this while other gedoilim were standing nearby! 

Among those participating in the demonstration, were senior members of the Eda Charedis, in addition to the Peleg Yerushalayim group. Based on videos and pictures, it appeared that thousands of participants joined the rally.

Shortly before the demonstration, the leaders of the BaDaTZ Eda Haredis, led by HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch shlit’a, addressed the demonstrators.

Protesters carried signs saying “We will not join the enemy army” and “We will die and not enlist.” Photos show clashes between demonstrators and police, as well as dumpster fires and police shooting and spraying protesters with hoses and water cannons. Protesters marched through the streets to various sections of the neighboring areas.
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According to reports, some Roshei Yeshiva even called on yeshiva students to leave seder to join the demonstration, a signal of the critical nature of the draft threat.

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Charedi Narrowly Escapes Being Lynched by "Innocent" Palestinian Mob After Car Set on Fire

 

Shocking video of an Israeli owned car set alight by a Palestinian mob after he accidentally entered the town Palestinian town of Qalandiya near Ramallah. He hit a pillar as he tried to flee the mob, sustaining light injuries. #westbank #Judeasamaria

(Video: Unknown / Telegram) pic.twitter.com/ZxSlBX2B1O

— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) June 30, 2024

 An Israeli man was attacked by Palestinians in Qalandiya just north of Jerusalem on Saturday night, sustaining light injuries, according to local media.

The victim, an ultra-Orthodox Jew in his 70s, was reportedly stoned after entering Qalandiya to refuel his car. In video footage shared on Arabic social media, dozens of rioters can be seen throwing stones at his vehicle.

He subsequently lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a concrete barrier, sustaining injuries. He was said to have fled on foot towards the Qalandiya Checkpoint, where he was met by Israeli security forces.

The victim was treated by medics on the scene before being evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. His vehicle was set on fire.

A week prior, an Israeli man was killed in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya in western Samaria. The victim, identified as Amnon Muchtar, 66, from Petach Tikvah in central Israel, reportedly owned a vegetable store and was said to have traveled to Qalqilya to buy produce.

The deadly shooting came two days after a 78-year-old Israeli man was mortally wounded near Qalqilya. An initial probe found that assailants had severely beaten the man and stolen his car.

Israelis are barred from entering Qalqilya, along with other regions of Judea and Samaria under full Palestinian administrative and security control, collectively designated Area A under the Oslo Accords.