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Tue 20 Jun 2023 11:36 pm - Jerusalem Time

Moment by moment: This is how Operation "Holy Vengeance" unfolded

Just before midnight, the Hebrew website Ynet published accurate details about the shooting attack at Eli settlement, which killed 4 settlers and wounded 4 others, and killed two Palestinian youths, Hamas activists.


And while a Palestinian called the operation "holy revenge" that came a day after the Jenin massacre, the Hebrew site described the operation as one of the worst attacks in recent times, describing it as a "massacre".


Step by step, this is how the website recounted the details of the operation that began at 15:55 (3:55 in the afternoon) Occupied Jerusalem time, Muhannad Shehadeh (25 years old) and Khaled Sabah (24 years old), from the village of Urif near Nablus, arrived at the station. They were driving a black Chevrolet, and they had two M16 rifles and two knives.


At 16:00 (4 in the afternoon), the two perpetrators got out of the vehicle, recognized a settler who was at the gas station and shot him, then he fled into the hummus restaurant at the same station, and one of them entered the restaurant and opened fire in every direction, killing 3 Settlers in the place are Nachman Shmuel Mordov (17 years old) from the Ahiya outpost near Ramallah, Elisha Antman (17 years old) from Eli settlement, a student of the Bnei Akiva Jewish religious school, and Harel Masoud (21 years old) from the Yad outpost near Ramallah .


At 16:02 (4:02 in the afternoon), Ofer Firman (64 years old), from Eli settlement, who was trying to refuel his vehicle, was killed. After that, the two perpetrators tried to flee, one of them in Sabah fled towards an area outside the station, while he ran Shehada towards the gas station entrance.


Upon hearing the sound of gunfire, the Israeli forces began arriving at the scene, before a security guard who was injured in the operation, and another settler, managed to eliminate Shehadeh at the gas station.


At 16:10 (4:10 in the afternoon), a settler from Itamar settlement arrived at the station to refuel, and when he heard the shooting, he tried to find a hiding place for him, and when the second port in the morning was returning to the gas station, he seized a Toyata car belonging to the settler He escaped with it, used it, and drove it north.


At 16:15 a.m. (4:15 a.m.), when the forces arrived at the scene and realized that the situation was tragic, it immediately became clear that one of the perpetrators had escaped, and the fact that he had used a settler’s vehicle after it had been seized facilitated the task of the forces, who had succeeded in observing him with intelligence since the moment he escaped.


Large forces were summoned and began imposing a siege on Nablus and its surroundings, while at the same time a special unit from Shin Bet operations and another military force were carrying out the task of tracking the second port, and they were on a continuous intelligence monitoring mission for the fleeing vehicle.


At 17:45 (5:45 PM), Sabah arrived in the vehicle he seized in Nablus, and apparently tried to continue towards Jenin, which is a haven for many terrorists, but near Elon Moreh settlement, he recognized a checkpoint set up by the Israeli army. As a result, he decided to leave the vehicle where it was, and took a Palestinian taxi.


Shortly after, the vehicle was located, in which the gun in which the operation was carried out was found.


At 18:20 (6:20 in the afternoon), the pursuit ended 30 km from the place of the operation. The "Tequila" team from the Shin Bet Operations Unit specialized in assassination operations, which was called after the attack, succeeded in pursuing the perpetrator and following him closely all the way. Close to him, until I managed to liquidate him after he entered Tubas by taxi.


An Israeli security official said that what happened in the attack did not happen for a long time, starting with the shooting inside the gas station and the restaurant and the result that the operation caused, until the two perpetrators were eliminated within two hours, one of them in the heart of a Palestinian village.


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